ENCEPHALON
\ɛnsˈɛfalən], \ɛnsˈɛfalən], \ɛ_n_s_ˈɛ_f_a_l_ə_n]\
Definitions of ENCEPHALON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
By Princeton University
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that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The part of the central nervous system contained within the cranium, comprising the prosencephalon, mesencephalon, and rhombencephalon. It is derived from the anterior part of the embryonic neural tube.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That which is situate in the head. This name has generally been given to the brain, cerebellum, and mesocephalon. At times, it includes likewise the medulla spinalis, when it is also called the Cerebro-spinal, and Neural axis. Under the term Cranio-spinal axis or centre of automatic actions, Dr. Carpenter includes the sensory ganglia-the respiratory and stomato-gastric ganglia forming the centre of the medulla oblongata and the spinal ganglia or true spinal cord.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
