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cerebrot, -ote Chem.|ˈsɛrɪbrɒt, -əʊt| [a. mod.F. cérébrote, f. L. cerebrum brain, after céphalote.] ‘Brain-fat’: ‘a substance containing sulphur and phosphorus, which Couerbe obtained by treating the deposit which separates the alcoholic and ethereal extracts of the brain with ether. According to Frémy it is merely a mixture of cerebric acid with small quantities of cerebrate of potassium and brain-albumin’ (Watts). Cf. cephalot.
1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 643/2 The following constituents [of the brain] are enumerated..3. cholesterim; 4. cerebrote. 1845G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. I. 188 The brain-fat, denominated cerebrot by Couerbe. 1872J. H. Bennett Text-bk. Physiol. iii. 495 Other substances have been found in Brain, termed cerebrin, cerebrol, and cerebrote, but it is probable they are one and the same substance. |