CEREBELLUM (cerebella)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: cerebella   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebellum mean? 

• CEREBELLUM (noun)
  The noun CEREBELLUM has 1 sense:

1. a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans

  Familiarity information: CEREBELLUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBELLUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cerebellum" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Meronyms (parts of "cerebellum"):

arteria cerebelli; cerebellar artery (an artery that supplies the cerebellum)

cerebellar hemisphere (either of two lateral lobes of the cerebellum)

dentate nucleus (a large laminar nucleus of grey matter within the white matter of each cerebral hemisphere)

vermis; vermis cerebelli (the narrow central part of the cerebellum between the two hemispheres)

paleocerebellum (the anterior lobe of the cerebellum which was one of the earliest parts of the hindbrain to develop in mammals)

Holonyms ("cerebellum" is a part of...):

hindbrain; rhombencephalon (the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem)

Derivation:

cerebellar (relating to or associated with the cerebellum)

 Context examples 

A benign or malignant (primary or metastatic) tumor involving the cerebellum. — 2003

(Cerebellar Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

The cerebellum is a relatively common site for tumor metastases from the lung, breast, and other distant organs.

(Cerebellar Neoplasm, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A papillary meningioma that affects the cerebellum.

(Cerebellar Papillary Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition that may occur in patients who have had surgery to remove a tumor in certain parts of the brain, including the cerebellum.

(Cerebellar mutism syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

Researchers found a direct neural connection from the cerebellum to the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the brain, which is an area long known to been involved in reward processing and encoding.

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

The cerebellum is the area of the brain that controls coordination and balance.

(Cerebellar Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

A malignant, invasive embryonal neoplasm arising from the cerebellum.

(Medulloblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign, slow-growing tumor in the cerebellum (part of the brain at the back of the head), made up of abnormal blood vessel growth.

(Cerebellar hemangioblastoma, NCI Dictionary)

A benign or malignant extra-adrenal paraganglioma arising from the cerebellum.

(Cerebellar Paraganglioma, NCI Thesaurus)

One of three pairs of nerve fiber bundles that originate from the cerebellum and link it to the brainstem.

(Cerebellar Peduncle, NCI Thesaurus)