right brainn.adj.

(in sense A.)Brit.

/ˌrʌɪt ˈbreɪn/, U.S.

/ˌraɪt ˈbreɪn/ (in sense B.)Brit.

/ˈrʌɪt ˌbreɪn/, U.S.

/ˈraɪt ˌbreɪn/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right adj., brain n.

Etymology: < right adj. + brain n. With use as adjective compare earlier right-brained adj.

A. n.

The right hemisphere of the cerebrum; (esp. in early use) this considered as a distinct organ from the left hemisphere.Since the mid 1970s, scientific research on brain asymmetry has been popularly and simplistically interpreted as implying that intuition and creativity are located in the right brain, and analytical logic in the left brain, and that dominance of one hemisphere is reflected in personality type.

ΚΠ

1844 A. L. Wigan New View Insanity xxviii. 410 Whenever the right brain is paralyzed, there is no power whatever to move the left limb.

1873 Chicago Med. Jrnl. 30 484 A mechanical impairment of speech exists more frequently in affections of the left than in those of the right brain.

1904 Science 8 Apr. 593/1 In the left-handed..the speech center is in the right brain.

1987 V. Mollenkott Godding iv. 59 Only the most creative people have been able to stay in contact with the neglected right brain.

2006 R. K. Sawyer Explaining Creativity v. 80 Roughly speaking, the right brain is associated with rapid, complex, whole-pattern, spatial, and perceptual processes, and the left brain is associated with verbal, analytic, and linear processes.

B. adj.

Or of relating to the activity of the right hemisphere of the cerebrum; characterized by modes of thought or behaviour popularly associated with this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [adjective] > cerebrum > other parts of cerebrum

bigeminal1824

super-cerebral1889

tegmental1890

amygdalar1959

right brain1962

1962 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 134 165/2 A significantly greater proportion of both control and left hemisphere lesion patients improved their scores with extra time than did patients with right brain lesions.

1975 Med. Anthropol. Newslet. 7 5/2 I would like to choose three examples..which may be used to test the hypothesis that right brain information processing can permit problem solving not easily accessible to left brain thinking.

1990 C. Bepko & J.-A. Krestan Too Good for her Own Good iii. vi. 177 Mary had rationalized that Joan was too ‘right brain’ and creative to handle the mundane details of living.

2006 N.Y. Mag. 21 Aug. 28/1 We also see the virtues of an approach that appeals both to left-brain analytics and right-brain imagination.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	right brain
释义	right brainn.adj. (in sense A.)Brit. /ˌrʌɪt ˈbreɪn/, U.S. /ˌraɪt ˈbreɪn/ (in sense B.)Brit. /ˈrʌɪt ˌbreɪn/, U.S. /ˈraɪt ˌbreɪn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right adj., brain n. Etymology: < right adj. + brain n. With use as adjective compare earlier right-brained adj. A. n. The right hemisphere of the cerebrum; (esp. in early use) this considered as a distinct organ from the left hemisphere.Since the mid 1970s, scientific research on brain asymmetry has been popularly and simplistically interpreted as implying that intuition and creativity are located in the right brain, and analytical logic in the left brain, and that dominance of one hemisphere is reflected in personality type. ΚΠ 1844 A. L. Wigan New View Insanity xxviii. 410 Whenever the right brain is paralyzed, there is no power whatever to move the left limb. 1873 Chicago Med. Jrnl. 30 484 A mechanical impairment of speech exists more frequently in affections of the left than in those of the right brain. 1904 Science 8 Apr. 593/1 In the left-handed..the speech center is in the right brain. 1987 V. Mollenkott Godding iv. 59 Only the most creative people have been able to stay in contact with the neglected right brain. 2006 R. K. Sawyer Explaining Creativity v. 80 Roughly speaking, the right brain is associated with rapid, complex, whole-pattern, spatial, and perceptual processes, and the left brain is associated with verbal, analytic, and linear processes. B. adj. Or of relating to the activity of the right hemisphere of the cerebrum; characterized by modes of thought or behaviour popularly associated with this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [adjective] > cerebrum > other parts of cerebrum bigeminal1824 super-cerebral1889 tegmental1890 amygdalar1959 right brain1962 1962 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 134 165/2 A significantly greater proportion of both control and left hemisphere lesion patients improved their scores with extra time than did patients with right brain lesions. 1975 Med. Anthropol. Newslet. 7 5/2 I would like to choose three examples..which may be used to test the hypothesis that right brain information processing can permit problem solving not easily accessible to left brain thinking. 1990 C. Bepko & J.-A. Krestan Too Good for her Own Good iii. vi. 177 Mary had rationalized that Joan was too ‘right brain’ and creative to handle the mundane details of living. 2006 N.Y. Mag. 21 Aug. 28/1 We also see the virtues of an approach that appeals both to left-brain analytics and right-brain imagination. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1844
随便看	renodation renode renogram renograms renographic renographies renography renoiresque renoirie renome renomed renomee renominate renominated renominates renominating renomination renominations renomé renopericardial renormalisation renormalisations renormalise renormalised renormalises