encephalic

[ en-suh-fal-ik ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the encephalon or brain.

encephalic

/ ˌɛnsɪˈfælɪk; ˌɛnkɪ- /

adjective

1. of or relating to the brain

Word History and Origins

Origin of encephalic¹

First recorded in 1825–35; encephal- + -ic

Example Sentences

I ended up finding it easier to move through the encephalic color scans than the black-and-white projections.

From Slate

But this is a legislature that suffers its own collective encephalic disorder – Obama derangement syndrome – which absent the visceral immediacy of something like Ebola makes maintaining a budgetary hard line seem perfectly rational in the face of a potential epic medical crisis.

From US News

On Monday, doctors attending Calero, 41, pronounced the former Pachuca goalie and the club's current goalkeeper coach brain dead after complications from an arterial thrombosis and encephalic edema.

From New York Times

But man himself, a well-organized, thoughtful, intelligent, well-educated man, by a fall from a horse, by a tile from a roof, may receive an injury to his nervous encephalic apparatus, and may be, even while a man in shape, as low as the brute in the imbecility of his reason, and inferior to the brute in physical strength.

From Project Gutenberg

It is females, in whom the encephalic development is larger than usual, that possess minds truly masculine.”

From Project Gutenberg