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Forebrain

Definition: Forebrain

Forebrain

Noun

1. The anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Forebrain

Synonym: prosencephalon (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Forebrain

English words defined with "forebrain": betweenbraindiencephaloninterbraintelencephalon, thalmencephalon. (references)
Specialty definitions using "forebrain": arhinencephalyBischoff crowncorona radiataholoprosencephalyLewy BodiesMedial Forebrain Bundleoptic evagination, optic pedicle, optic stalkpediculus cupulae opticaeradiating crownSeptal Nuclei, Substantia Innominata. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Forebrain

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Rat Forebrain (reference)

  • Evolution of the Forebrain Vol. 46, Nos. 4-5, 1995: Journal: Brain, Behavior & Evolution, 1995 (reference)

  • Rat Nervous System: Forebrain and Midbrain (Rat Nervous System) (reference)

  • The Forebrain in nonmammals : new aspects of structure and development (reference)

  • The Role of the Forebrain in Sensation and Behavior (Progress in Brain Research, No 87) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Forebrain

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

During normal development the forebrain is formed and the face begins to develop in the fifth and sixth weeks of pregnancy. (references)

Infants with this disorder are born without a forebrain - the largest part of the brain consisting mainly of the cerebrum, which is responsible for thinking and coordination. (references)

One group of NINDS-supported scientists is studying the consequences of dopamine cell degeneration in the basal ganglia brain structures located deep in the forebrain that help control voluntary movement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Forebrain

"Forebrain" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Forebrain" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2078,262

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Forebrain

Expression using "forebrain": Medial Forebrain Bundle. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Forebrain

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

forebrain

5

basal forebrain

4

ectoderm forebrain induction

4

forebrain function

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Forebrain

Language Translations for "forebrain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

etuaivojen pohjaosa (basal forebrain), etuaivojen basaaliosa (basal forebrain). (various references)

   

French

  

cerveau antérieur basal (basal forebrain). (various references)

   

German

  

basales Vorderhirn (basal forebrain). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

előagy. (various references)

   

Italian

  

base del proencefalo (basal forebrain). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

前脳 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぜ"のう (advance payment, almighty, full payment, omnipotent, prepayment). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orebrainfay

   

Spanish

  

cerebro anterior basal (basal forebrain). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

basala framhjärnan (basal forebrain). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Forebrain

Derivations

Words beginning with "forebrain": forebrains. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Forebrain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farberman, forbrain, freirean, Funebria. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Forebrain"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "forebrain" (pronounced fô"rbrā'n)
4-b r ā' nmembrane.
3-r ā' neyestrain, migraine, seatrain.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Forebrain

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-i-n-o-r-r"

-1 letter: airborne.

-2 letters: barnier, bonfire, forbear, foreran, refrain.

-3 letters: barren, barrio, bonier, borane, briner, fainer, fairer, infare, ironer, orbier, reborn.

-4 letters: afire, afore, airer, arbor, bairn, barer, baron, barre, beano, boner, borer, borne, brain, briar, brief, brier, brine, farer, feria, fiber, fibre, finer, firer, frena, friar, frier, frore, infer, infra, irone, noria, rebar, reran, rifer.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-i-n-o-r-r"
 

+1 letter: forbearing, forebrains.

 

+2 letters: fingerboard.

 

+3 letters: fingerboards, neurofibroma.

 

+4 letters: carboniferous, neurofibromas, reinforceable.

 

+5 letters: neurofibromata, prefabrication, reconfigurable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Forebrain


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 6F 72 65 62 72 61 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ---    .-.    .    -...    .-.    .-    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100010 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#111 &#114 &#101 &#98 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 006F 0072 0065 0062 0072 0061 0069 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

408184716884677580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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