Associations to the word «Encephalon»

Noun

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Wiktionary

ENCEPHALON, noun. (neuroanatomy) The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; the brain.

Dictionary definition

ENCEPHALON, noun. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord.

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