cerebella

Motor coordination organs

Cerebella is the plural of cerebellum, the region at the back of the brain responsible for coordinating movement and balance.

The Latin plural appears mainly in scientific and medical writing: The researchers compared cerebella from multiple specimens.

In everyday contexts, cerebellums works fine.

function

motor control

Regulation of bodily movement

posture · gait · timing · proprioception · tremor · ataxia · nystagmus · hypotonia · muscle tone · voluntary movement

pathology

ataxia

Impaired voluntary movement control

nystagmus

anatomy

lobules

Small subdivisions of lobes

neuroscience

neural circuitry

Interconnected nerve pathways

Opposites
brain region function

cerebellacerebra

Encephalic thinking portions

cerebrums · cerebral cortex · frontal lobes · prefrontal cortex · forebrains

Family

cerebellum, cerebellar

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