0 the organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, and activity:
Doctors tried desperately to reduce the swelling in her brain.
Marie has an amazing brain (= is very intelligent).
That can't possibly be the right way to do it - use your brain!
The poor child inherited his mother's brains and his father's looks.
He's got brains but he's too lazy to use them (= he is intelligent but lazy).
We have the best brains in the land working on this problem.
My little brother's the brains of the family.
2 the organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, and physical activity:
3 a very intelligent person:
4 the person responsible for the planning and management of an activity or organization:
the brains behind sth He is the brains behind the corporation's success.
Gorillas, chimpanzees, and gibbons are all anthropoid apes, having long arms, no tails, and highly developed brains.
The doctors were worried that he might have suffered brain damage.
We still don't fully understand how the brain works.
The mouse brains were excised and collected for histopathological study and immunological analyses.
The three techniques used had the same sensitivity for virus detection in bat brains (100 %).
Studies have demonstrated that our brains contain neurally based 'body schema', or representations of our bodies.
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