encephalon
The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed…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.
» The brain is part of the encephalon.
Meaning
1 sensesThe 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
that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
Examples
1 sentencesThe brain is part of the encephalon.
Translations
5 languagesOrigin
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “within the head”), from ἐν (eLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “within the head”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
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Forms
plural: encephalons / encephala| Singular | encephalon |
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| Plural | encephalons / encephala |
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Synonyms
1 synonyms- that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord:brain
Word family
15 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular