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brainal en · ADJ

Etymology

From brain + -al.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, not-comparable, possibly) Of or relating to the brain.
    • Some slight incision in a particular brainal lobe and I'd be good to go —lobotomized. 2012, J.R. Angelella, Zombie, page 8:
    • ...the changes effected by diet and environments on the brainal or intellectual characteristics of the individual. 1905, Edmond Raymond Moras, Autology (study thyself) and autopathy (cure thyself), page 18:
    • Disordered emotional states, attributable to the lowered vitality of the brainal structures, mark alike the rise and progress of the disorder... 1882, Transactions of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, Volumes 84-85, page 81:

Synonyms

cerebral