brain

organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals
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brain

Summary

brain is an organ type[1]. brain draws 7,399 Wikipedia views per month (organ_type category, ranking #10 of 50).[2]

Key Facts

  • brain's instance of is recorded as organ type[3].
  • brain's instance of is recorded as class of anatomical entity[4].
  • brain is a type of animal organ[5].
  • brain is a type of encephalon[6].
  • brain is a type of particular anatomical entity[7].
  • brain is part of head[8].
  • brain is part of central nervous system[9].
  • brain is part of neurovascular system[10].
  • brain's Commons category is recorded as Brain[11].
  • brain's Unicode character is recorded as ๐Ÿง [12].
  • brain comprises prosencephalon[13].
  • brain comprises mesencephalon[14].
  • brain comprises brain stem[15].
  • brain comprises rhombencephalon[16].
  • brain's found in taxon is recorded as Bilateria[17].
  • brain's has cause is recorded as cephalization[18].
  • brain's has cause is recorded as brain development[19].
  • brain's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Brain[20].
  • brain's anatomical location is recorded as cranial cavity[21].
  • brain's Commons gallery is recorded as Brain[22].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926โ€“1947)[25].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885โ€“1890)[26].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Encyclopรฆdia Britannica 11th edition[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include organ type[3] and class of anatomical entity[4]. Recorded subclass of include animal organ[5], encephalon[6], and particular anatomical entity[7].

Use and Application

Components include prosencephalon[13], a brain region[28]; mesencephalon[14], a brain region[29]; brain stem[15], a class of anatomical entity[30]; and rhombencephalon[16], an embryonic structure[31]. Part of include head[8], a class of anatomical entity[32]; central nervous system[9], an organ type[33]; and neurovascular system[10], a biological system[34].

Influence

Things named for brain include Brainfuck[35], an esoteric programming language[36], founded in 1993[37]; Google Brain[38], a corporate research group[39], in United States[40], founded in 2011[41], headquartered in Mountain View[42]; otak-otak[43], a human food[44], in Indonesia[45]; Brain[46], a scientific journal[47], founded in 1878[48]; Ubongo[49], a board game[50]; Brain Research[51], a scientific journal[52], founded in 1966[53]; and Brainy Smurf[54], a smurf[55].

Why It Matters

brain draws 7,399 Wikipedia views per month (organ_type category, ranking #10 of 50).[2] brain has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] brain is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]

Entities named for brain include Brainfuck[35], an esoteric programming language[36], founded in 1993[37]; Google Brain[38], a corporate research group[39], in United States[40], founded in 2011[41], headquartered in Mountain View[42]; otak-otak[43], a human food[44], in Indonesia[45]; Brain[46], a scientific journal[47], founded in 1878[48]; Ubongo[49], a board game[50]; and Brain Research[51], a scientific journal[52], founded in 1966[53].

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  10. [12] โ†‘ . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] โ†‘ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] โ†‘ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [56] โ†‘ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [57] โ†‘ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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