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Or how can increased mental ability which is contingent on the elaboration of certain brain-cells be impressed on a germ which has no brain-cells but only the capacity under certain conditions of producing such cells?

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.

The progeny of these dogs, to several generations, shows at birth a much larger number of brain-cells in the visual area than is the case where the ancestry has not been so strained.

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Wood-Allen, Mary

Deep in her baby brain-cells I planted vague memories of "Down the River," "Over the Hills in Legions," and "Nellie Wildwood," for I sang to her almost every evening of her infant life.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

Mind, we found, is born in the form of consciousness when the outside world impresses itself upon the brain-cells by way of the senses.

From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.

The violet liquid, it came to Larry in his trance of wonder, must take the place of blood, feeding the brain-cells, absorbing waste.

From The Pygmy Planet by Williamson, Jack