encephalon
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encephalon
- /ɛnˈsɛfələn/
- /ɛnˈsɛfəlɒn/
- /ɪn-/ also
- /-ˈsɛfəlɑn/ also
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “within the head”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
noun encephalons · encephala
- 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
