encephalon

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/ɛnˈsɛfələn/

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/ɛnˈsɛfələn/ · /ɛnˈsɛfəlɒn/ · /ɪn-/ · /-ˈsɛfəlɑn/

Definition of encephalon

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noun

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”

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

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