How to Use cerebellum in a Sentence

cerebellum

noun
  • The cerebellum is more or less a kind of sidekick for the rest of the brain.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2011
  • The left side of Rasmussen's cerebellum was blocked by a clot.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Their brains, and specifically the cerebellum, wasn't shaped like ours.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 7 June 2017
  • Joel’s skull just behind his left ear, ripped through his cerebellum, and come to a stop beneath his scalp above and behind his right ear.
    — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
  • The doctors had just delivered the news of a lesion nestled deep in my cerebellum.
    — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The running mice lived up to a year, about normal for a mouse, despite having a shrunken cerebellum.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2016
  • Neurons in the cerebellum went up largely as a function of absolute brain size.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 July 2022
  • In effect, a casual tilt of the head can briefly limit blood supply to key parts of the brain stem and cerebellum.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • According to researchers, practice can lead to new maps of neurons in the cerebellum, an area in the back of the brain.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The cerebellum sits behind the brain-to-spinal-cord motor and sensory pathways.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2021
  • That’s just a matter of empirical fact; the cerebellum doesn’t seem much involved.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2021
  • It was connected to the dress via a cable that ran down the model’s spine, the same way the cerebellum sends neural signals to the body.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Because the compartment where the cerebellum sits is very small, bleeding here can be dangerous.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Medulloblastomas most commonly form in the cerebellum, the bottom part of the brain located at the back of the skull.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But what hits them hardest is the relentless loss of muscle control caused by neurons dying in the brain’s cerebellum.
    — Amar Dhand, STAT, 26 June 2019
  • And this is more of a content note, but that’s not where the cerebellum is—you’ll want to go down a little bit (at least according to your drawing of me).
    — Broti Gupta, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The bottom of the cerebellum extended nine millimeters into the spinal canal.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • Hiking up the hippocampus or sailing around the cerebellum would no doubt be an awesome experience and well worth the trip.
    — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 21 July 2023
  • Medulloblastoma is a rare brain cancer found in the cerebellum, the lower back part of the brain, that can easily spread throughout the brain and spinal cord.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Maddie was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a brain tumor of the cerebellum at the base of the skull that controls motor skills.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The cerebellum, by contrast, has roughly half the total neurons in the brain, and yet people can survive with severe damage to it.
    — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2019
  • The explanation of how the cerebellum worked seemed watertight.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The cerebellum and body cooperate merely to take care of the fine-tuning without conscious input.
    — Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Your cerebellum is a region of the brain that helps control your balance, coordination, and movements.
    — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Some studies suggest that long-term cannabis use is associated with a loss of volume in the cerebellum and poorer sleep quality.
    — Amiah Taylor, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Microscopic photos of cells and neurons in the cerebellum were printed on the dress bodice and decorated with pearls and fine silver chain.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 Jan. 2018
  • In contrast, the cerebellum showed no such association.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Overall, there were at least 27 brains, including the cerebellum, taken from Filipinos.
    — Nicole Dungca and Claire Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The artery that supplies the brainstem — the master controller of the body’s functions like breathing and heart rate — was blocked by a clot, and the blood flow to the cerebellum at the back of the brain was blocked.
    — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • What researchers have identified are degenerative changes in the cerebellum—the area at the back of the brain that helps coordinate movement.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 7 May 2026

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