Word: cerebellums
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...explorers undergo a more familiar kind of torture. During one native gathering, they offer each other up to teach the quasiprimitive Borneans some new dance steps, and at another they end up, reports the author, so hung over that "someone seemed to have inserted a pestle into my cerebellum during the night, and was now using the inside top of my skull as a mortar." A native politely informs him, "You got drunks like a man who still lives in his mother's room. You got drunks like a schoolboy. You made noises like a babi when he looks...
...involuntary functions as the pulse and perspiration. They also flood at least three critical parts of the brain itself: the cerebral cortex, which governs higher mental activities like memory and reasoning; the hypothalamus (appetite, body temperature and sleep as well as such emotions as anger and fear); and the cerebellum (walking, balance and other motor activities...
...electroencephalogram showed an "irregularity" in KÖpcke's brain-wave pattern. Doctors then used the CAT (for "computerized axial tomography") scanner to make cross-section images of the boxer's brain and discovered, in their words, "a fairly common, apparently congenital anomaly between the cerebrum and cerebellum"-a condition that might make him particularly susceptible to injury from blows to the head. Hamburg's amateur boxing association believed it had no other choice; it banned the apparently robust KÖpcke from ever boxing again, thus making him a fighter kayoed...
Prizes to be awarded include the John Belushi Award for the top player in high black Converse sneakers, the Derek Bok Interstellar Cerebellum Award for the player who uses his talent to the fullest, and the Larry Flint Hustler Award...
...they've a brain and cerebellum...