Associations to the word «Diencephalon»

Wiktionary

DIENCEPHALON, noun. (neuroanatomy) The region of the human brain, specifically the human forebrain, that includes the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the epithalamus, the prethalamus or subthalamus, and the pretectum.

Dictionary definition

DIENCEPHALON, noun. The posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats