encephalon
noun/ɛnˈsɛfələn/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “within the head”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
- learned borrowing from ἐγκέφαλος
Definitions
The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed…
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
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for encephalon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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