Brain
(
BR
;
Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, c1700 BC
)
: See invertebrate brain (>1840) and vertebrate brain (Cuvier, 1800). An ancient Egyptian hieroglyph that refers to the human brain probably dates back some five thousand years; see Longrigg (1998, p. 84), Nunn (2002, pp. 43, 50-51, 217), and Rocca (2003, p. 21).
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