Definition of Right brain

1. Noun. The cerebral hemisphere to the right of the corpus callosum that controls the left half of the body.

Exact synonyms: Right Hemisphere
Generic synonyms: Cerebral Hemisphere, Hemisphere

Definition of Right brain

1. Noun. The right cerebral hemisphere; the part of the brain associated with creativity. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Brain

right ascension
right atrioventricular valve
right atrium
right atrium of heart
right atrium of the heart
right auricular appendage
right away
right axis deviation
right back
right backs
right bank
right banks
right border of heart
right bracket
right brackets
right brain (current term)
right branch
right branch of portal vein
right branch of proper hepatic artery
right colic artery
right colic flexure
right colic lymph nodes
right colic vein
right coronary artery
right coronary artery branches
right coset
right cosets
right cross
right crosses
right crus of atrioventricular bundle

Literary usage of Right brain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Building of a Brain by Edward Hammond Clarke (1880)
"The right brain animates and controls the left arm and hand: the left ... The left brain and right hand, the right brain and left hand, develop together. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1874)
"right brain, right hemisphere ; 4. right brain, left hemisphere. It is worth noting that, excepting with the left brain, right hemisphere, this order is ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1874)
"right brain, right hemisphere ; 4. right brain, left hemisphere. It is worth noting that, excepting with the left brain, right hemisphere, this order is ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"In the case of a man who forty years previously suffered a disarticulation of the left arm, the right brain showed a decided depression of the as- cending ..."

5. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1898)
"There is a case on record, reported by Dr. Bruce, in which, after epileptic seizures on the right side, a patient whose right brain was thus left to rule ..."

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