12 sentences with 'brain'
Example sentences and phrases with the word brain and other words derived from it.
• « Recklessness. Many a privileged brain hears a little inner voice repeating, "Now, for your next boast..." »
• « Chris had a tumor in the brain stem, a region of the brain located at the bottom of the brain that controls basic functions such as movement, heartbeat and breathing. »
• « It had long been considered impossible to remove a brain stem tumor with traditional surgical instruments. On the other hand, if treated with radiation or chemotherapy alone, the patient almost invariably died within two years. »
• « The patient's brain stem, completely exposed, throbbed like a little heart. The doctors and nurses stared at it for a moment, fascinated. »
• « Thus, this defensive mechanism of the brain - which, as we have seen, can become offensive in the form of stress - involves a complex biochemistry, in a sequence that activates first and foremost the amygdala of the limbic brain system. »
• « The stimulation of the pituitary in the brain releases adrenocorticotropic hormone, or ACTH, into the blood, which in turn activates the small but powerful adrenal glands on top of each kidney. »
• « those who "smoke" other people's smoke often get cancers of the lung, brain, cervix and breast. »
• « "The human brain is the last and greatest biological frontier". This was stated by Dr James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix of deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, the key to the genetic code, in his recent book Discovering the Brain. »
• « It is the marvellous brain tissue that is the basis of our mind, whose functioning is essentially based on the anatomical-functional unit called the neuron. »
• « The brain neuron is an irregularly shaped cell with almost a thousand axons and dendrites that allow it to make contact (in the manner of an electric click) with neighbouring neurons. »