How to Use cerebellum in a Sentence

cerebellum

noun

• The cerebellum is more or less a kind of sidekick for the rest of the brain.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2011
• According to researchers, practice can lead to new maps of neurons in the cerebellum, an area in the back of the brain.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2018
• The cerebellum of an Indigenous Filipino who died at the 1904 World’s Fair.
  — Andrew Ba Tran, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• There is no question that the cerebellum has this function.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
• It was connected to the dress via a cable that ran down the model’s spine, the same way the cerebellum sends neural signals to the body.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• The artery that supplies the brainstem — the master controller of the body’s functions like breathing and heart rate — was blocked by a clot, and the blood flow to the cerebellum at the back of the brain was blocked.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• Medulloblastomas most commonly form in the cerebellum, the bottom part of the brain located at the back of the skull.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 12 Jan. 2024
• Joel’s skull just behind his left ear, ripped through his cerebellum, and come to a stop beneath his scalp above and behind his right ear.
  — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
• And this is more of a content note, but that’s not where the cerebellum is—you’ll want to go down a little bit (at least according to your drawing of me).
  — Broti Gupta, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2021
• He was rushed to the hospital where a CT scan showed a clot in his neck that had moved to the back of his head near his cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls balance and movement.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2021
• According to the National Institutes of Health, the hindbrain includes the upper part of the spinal cord, the brain stem, and the cerebellum.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
• The running mice lived up to a year, about normal for a mouse, despite having a shrunken cerebellum.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2016
• Medulloblastoma is a rare brain cancer found in the cerebellum, the lower back part of the brain, that can easily spread throughout the brain and spinal cord.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• Belko, however, wants to have its scrambled cerebellum and eat it, too.
  — Jordan Hoffman, VanityFair.com, 16 Mar. 2017
• Their brains, and specifically the cerebellum, wasn't shaped like ours.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 June 2017
• The stroke was in his cerebellum and was affecting his balance, which led to the decompressive surgery, Mr. Sanchez said.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
• Still, the movie has enough visual wit and easy chemistry between its leads to pull off something a Bay movie hasn't been in a while: pure, cerebellum-jolting fun.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 28 June 2022
• The cerebellum sits behind the brain-to-spinal-cord motor and sensory pathways.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2021
• In April 1888 Cajal prepared samples from the cerebellum of a three-day-old pigeon embryo.
  — Benjamin Ehrlich, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022
• Neurons in the cerebellum went up largely as a function of absolute brain size.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 July 2022
• Maddie was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a brain tumor of the cerebellum at the base of the skull that controls motor skills.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2022
• The cerebellum, by contrast, has roughly half the total neurons in the brain, and yet people can survive with severe damage to it.
  — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2019
• That’s just a matter of empirical fact; the cerebellum doesn’t seem much involved.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2021
• The bottom of the cerebellum extended nine millimeters into the spinal canal.
  — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 1 May 2018
• But what hits them hardest is the relentless loss of muscle control caused by neurons dying in the brain’s cerebellum.
  — Amar Dhand, STAT, 26 June 2019
• Then a year ago, Duarte was diagnosed with Chiari malformation, a structural defect that occurs in the base of the skull and cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls balance.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2019
• Between the ages of 3 and 4, Luis Heberto had to undergo surgery for a hernia in the cerebellum and that was the most difficult for her, since her little boy was in a coma for three days.
  — Nadia Cantú, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2024
• In our parks are there any trees more elegant and luxurious than the Purkinje cell from the cerebellum . .
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
• Hiking up the hippocampus or sailing around the cerebellum would no doubt be an awesome experience and well worth the trip.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 21 July 2023
• However, two months into her freshman year, Isabella was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a form of cancer that arises in the cerebellum, which is located at the base of the skull and is responsible for coordination.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Aug 2024