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MESENCEPHALON

\mˈɛsənsˌɛfalən], \mˈɛsənsˌɛfalən], \m_ˈɛ_s_ə_n_s_ˌɛ_f_a_l_ə_n]\

Definitions of MESENCEPHALON

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

The corpora quadrigemina and crura cerebri together.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

The second of the three primitive cerebral cesicles from which are developed the middle cerebral ganglia, including the corpora quadrigemina and crura cerebri. [Gr.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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