Brain

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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this. — Emo Phillips

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Introduction¹

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Dictionary

brain : the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system enclosed in the skull and continuous with the spinal cord through the foramen magnum that is composed of neurons and supporting and nutritive structures (as glia) and that integrates sensory information from inside and outside the body in controlling autonomic function (as heartbeat and respiration), in coordinating and directing correlated motor responses, and in the process of learning — Webster See also OneLook

Glossary (BrainFacts, Society for Neuroscience)

Thesaurus

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Encyclopedia

Brain serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. The brain is an organ which is located in the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision. In a human, the cerebral cortex contains approximately 15–33 billion neurons, each connected by synapses to several thousand other neurons. These neurons communicate with one another by means of long protoplasmic fibers called axons, which carry trains of signal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of the brain or body targeting specific recipient cells. — Wikipedia

Brain (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Exploring the Nervous System (Eric H. Chudler, University of Washington)

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Science

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, developmental biology, cytology, psychology, physics, computer science, chemistry, medicine, statistics, and mathematical modeling to understand the fundamental and emergent properties of neurons, glia and neural circuits. — Wikipedia

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Neuroscience (Wolfram Alpha)

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