right brain

1. 1.

   the cerebral hemisphere to the right of the corpus callosum that controls the left half of the body

   Synonymsright hemisphere

   Broaderhemisphere

Questions about right brain

What does right brain mean?

right brain means "the cerebral hemisphere to the right of the corpus callosum that controls the left half of the body".

What is another word for right brain?

Close synonyms include right hemisphere. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is right brain a common word?

right brain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.