Chem. [a. mod.F. cérébrote, f. L. cerebrum brain, after céphalote.] ‘Brain-fat’: ‘a substance containing sulphur and phosphorus, which Couerbe obtained by treating the deposit which separates the alcoholic and ethereal extracts of the brain with ether. According to Frémy it is merely a mixture of cerebric acid with small quantities of cerebrate of potassium and brain-albumin’ (Watts). Cf. CEPHALOT.
1839–47. Todd, Cycl. Anat., III. 643/2. The following constituents [of the brain] are enumerated … 3. cholesterim; 4. cerebrote.
1845. G. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., I. 188. The brain-fat, denominated cerebrot by Couerbe.
1872. J. H. Bennett, Text-bk. Physiol., III. 495. Other substances have been found in brain, termed cerebrin, cerebrol, and cerebrote; but it is probable they are one and the same substance.
