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
  • The model was diagnosed with a large medulloblastoma — a type of malignant tumor — in her cerebellum in October 2023.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
  • This declaration matches the experimental evidence Koch presents in Chapter 6: Injuries to the cerebellum do not eliminate a person’s awareness of themselves in relation to the outside world.
    Lindsey Laughlin, Ars Technica, 18 May 2024

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