"second brain" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: second brains [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} second brain (plural second brains)
  1. (anatomy, informal) The enteric nervous system. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-second_brain-en-noun-T~f-VWpi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  2. The practice of unloading information to a digital storage, such as a notetaking application; the application and the associated data collectively.
    Sense id: en-second_brain-en-noun-sNIHdbVF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46

Inflected forms

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