"cérébral" meaning in French

See cérébral in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /se.ʁe.bʁal/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-cérébral.wav Forms: cérébrale [feminine], cérébraux [masculine, plural], cérébrales [feminine, plural]
Etymology: A learned formation from the root of Latin cerebrum and the suffix -al. Etymology templates: {{der|fr|la|cerebrum}} Latin cerebrum Head templates: {{fr-adj}} cérébral (feminine cérébrale, masculine plural cérébraux, feminine plural cérébrales)
  1. cerebral Derived forms: accident vasculaire cérébral, attaque cérébrale, infirmité motrice cérébrale, mort cérébrales, paralysie cérébrale, tronc cérébral
    Sense id: en-cérébral-fr-adj-txMCB1j7 Categories (other): Anatomy Disambiguation of Anatomy: 62 38
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Personality Disambiguation of Personality: 0 0

Noun

IPA: /se.ʁe.bʁal/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-cérébral.wav Forms: cérébraux [plural], cérébrale [feminine]
Etymology: A learned formation from the root of Latin cerebrum and the suffix -al. Etymology templates: {{der|fr|la|cerebrum}} Latin cerebrum Head templates: {{fr-noun|m|f=+}} cérébral m (plural cérébraux, feminine cérébrale)
  1. a cerebral person Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-cérébral-fr-noun-~M2RdOL5 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French terms suffixed with -al, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Disambiguation of French terms suffixed with -al: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Personality Disambiguation of Personality: 0 0

Inflected forms

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