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Encephalon

//ɛnˈsɛfələn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; synonym of brain.

    "Meronyms: prosencephalon, telencephalon, diencephalon; mesencephalon; rhombencephalon, metencephalon, myelencephalon"

  2. 2
    that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “within the head”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

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