Cĕr'e-bral, a.

a. [From Lat. cerebrum, brain; Fr. cérébral.] Pertaining to the cerebrum, or brain.

Cerebral letters, a class of consonants almost exclusively peculiar to the Indian languages, formed by bringing the tip of the tongue backward and upward nearly to the middle of the palate.

☞ Cerebral letters was the original English denomination which arose from a false translation of the Indian name signifying “letters of the dome of the palate.” Lepsius.