Definition of Cerebrospinal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the brain and spinal cord. "Cerebrospinal fluid"

Partainyms: Brain, Spinal Cord

Definition of Cerebrospinal

1. a. Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

Definition of Cerebrospinal

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to brain or spine (particularly the spinal cord). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cerebrospinal

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Cerebrospinal

1. Pertaining to the brain and spinal cord. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cerebrospinal

cerebromeningitis
cerebron
cerebronic acid
cerebropathia
cerebropathy
cerebrophysiology
cerebroretinal angiomatosis
cerebrosclerosis
cerebroscopy
cerebrose
cerebroside
cerebroside-sulfatase
cerebrosides
cerebrosidosis
cerebrospinal (current term)
cerebrospinal axis
cerebrospinal fever
cerebrospinal fluid
cerebrospinal fluid pressure
cerebrospinal fluid proteins
cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea
cerebrospinal fluid shunts
cerebrospinal fluids
cerebrospinal index
cerebrospinal meningitis
cerebrospinal nematodiasis
cerebrospinal otorrhoea
cerebrospinal pressure
cerebrospinal rhinorrhoea

Literary usage of Cerebrospinal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"JOHN A. KOLMER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF EXAMINATIONS OF cerebrospinal FLUID' The Origin of the cerebrospinal Fluid in Relation to ..."

2. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"The epidemic form of cerebrospinal meningitis is always due to the meningococcus. ... The epidemiology of cerebrospinal fever differs from that of infantile ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Epidemic cerebrospinal Meningitis ... 175 499 In the city of New York the number of deaths from cerebrospinal meningitis from ..."

4. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1913)
"With an enormous clinical material at his disposal Lange made a careful study of the various known clinical reactions as applied to cerebrospinal fluid in ..."

5. Transactions by Epidemiological Society of London (1899)
"EPIDEMIC cerebrospinal MENINGITIS. BY R. BRUCE LOW, MD (Bead: January 2(MA, 1899.) From facts that have come under my own notice, I am led to think that the ..."

6. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"The author will first consider cerebrospinal meningitis of the epidemic and sporadic type, ... —cerebrospinal meningitis is an acute infectious disease, ..."

7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"THE METHOD OF OBTAINING cerebrospinal FLUID BT PUNCTURE OF THE CISTERNA MAGNA ... Dixon and Halliburton,6 in 1913, showed that the cerebrospinal fluid ..."

8. Infectious Diseases by James Cornelius Wilson, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"There is also a book by Dr. Jaeger (cerebrospinal Meningitis as a House Pestilence, ... Although epidemic cerebrospinal fever occurred for the first time in ..."

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