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Daily 13
| Word | Definition | Context |
|---|---|---|
| REGULATES | controls or manages how something works. | it not only controls your other organs, regulates pleasure and pain, hunger and thirst, blood pressure and body temperature |
| IDENTITY | who a person is, including their personality, thoughts, and feelings | it also plays a huge part in determining your personal identity through thoughts, memories and emotions. |
| COMPLEX | having many parts and difficult to understand. | the brain is far superior and far more complex. |
| HEMISPHERE | one half of a sphere or round object, especially the brain | the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere. |
| CORPUS CALLOSUM | a group of nerve fibres that connects the two halves of the brain. | Information and instructions pass from one side of the brain to the other through the corpus callosum |
| NERVE FIBRES | long thin parts of nerve cells that carry messages. | about 200–250 million nerve fibres. |
| ANALYSIS | the detailed study of something to understand it better. | The left side is more related to logic and analysis. |
| IMAGINATIVE | having the ability to create new ideas or images | The right is usually considered more creative and imaginative. |
| DOMINANT | more powerful or important than others | the right side of their brain is dominant |
| NEURONS | nerve cells that send and receive messages in the brain. | by creating connections or pathways (synapses) between brain cells (neurons). |