CEREBELLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebellar mean? 

• CEREBELLAR (adjective)
  The adjective CEREBELLAR has 1 sense:

1. relating to or associated with the cerebellum

  Familiarity information: CEREBELLAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBELLAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or associated with the cerebellum

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

cerebellar artery

Pertainym:

cerebellum (a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans)

Derivation:

cerebellum (a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans)

 Context examples 

A benign, WHO grade I cerebellar mass, which occurs in young adults and is composed of dysplastic ganglion cells.

(Dysplastic Cerebellar Gangliocytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A blood vessel that is the terminal branch of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery supplying the inferior vermis.

(Inferior Vermian Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Pathological features include prominent cerebellar and cerebral cortical spongiform degeneration and the presence of PRIONS. (From N Engl J Med, 1998 Dec 31;339(27))

(Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Morphologically it is characterized by spongiform degeneration of the cerebral and cerebellar cortex.

(Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma, desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma, desmoplastic infantile astrocytoma, and dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor.

(Neuronal and Mixed Neuronal-Glial Tumors, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

The researchers found that activating the cerebellar neurons led to increased activation in the VTA of mice, indicating a working connection between these two brain structures.

(New Findings Reveal Surprising Role of the Cerebellum in Reward and Social Behaviors, National Institutes of Health)

A rare genetic syndrome characterized by the hypoplasia or absence of the cerebellar vermis.

(Joubert Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the hypoplasia or absence of the cerebellar vermis.

(Joubert Syndrome Type 4, NCI Thesaurus)

The most frequent malignant cerebellar neoplasm of childhood is medulloblastoma.

(Malignant Cerebellar Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion of this gene and the NTRK2 gene may be associated with non-cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma.

(NACC2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)