Brain (disambiguation)

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The term brain refers to more than one thing:

• brain, an organ part of many vertebrates' nervous systems
• Brain, Côte-d'Or, the name of a commune in the Côte-d'Or département in France
• Brain, (real name Brian Mantia) a drummer who has played with several bands including Primus and Praxis
• Brain, one of the titular lab mice in the cartoon Pinky and the Brain
• Brain is also the name of the dog in the cartoon Inspector Gadget
• Brain is also an often misspelled typo of the name Brian.
• C.K. "Bob" Brain, paleontologist.
• Walter Russell Brain, a neurologist
  • Baron Brain, the peerage created for him
• Dennis Brain, A British Horn player.
  • Aubrey Brain, Dennis Brain's father, also a Horn player.
• "The Brain", nickname of Bobby Heenan, wrestler and manager
• Brain (journal), a neurological medical journal
• Brain Records, a German krautrock record label from the 70s
• (c)Brain, a computer virus
• Brains Brewery, a brewery in Wales
• Brain, a slang term for fellatio
• Brain (comics), a DC Comics villain
• Brain (novel), by Robin Cook
• Observer (MST3K), often called "Brain Guy"
• "Brain," a song by N*E*R*D from their 2001 album In Search of...
• As a verb, to inflict blunt force trauma to someone's head.

The adjective cerebral, usually meaning pertaining to the brain, can have special meanings:

• in linguistics, cerebral consonant is another name for retroflex consonant, which is in use in indology.