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Metencephalon

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The portion of the embryonic rhombencephalon from which the pons and cerebellum arise.
  2. 2
    the part of the hindbrain that develops into the pons and the cerebellum wordnet

Etymology

From met- + encephalon.

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