encephalon
Americannoun
plural
encephalanoun
Other Word Forms
- encephalous adjective
Etymology
Origin of encephalon
1735–45; < New Latin, alteration ( -on for -os ) of Greek enképhalos (adj.) within the head, as masculine noun, brain; en- 2, -cephalous
Example Sentences
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I consider the significance of the encephalon to depend upon the number and size of the cells composing it.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin
Broca, the most eminent of French anthropologists, regarded as an absurdity the attempt to establish a necessary relation between the development of intelligence and the volume and weight of the encephalon.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
Brains win, in the journalistic world as elsewhere, and "blowing" a circulation were equivalent to employing a brass band to call attention to the abnormal size of the editorial encephalon.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper
The Cerebrum or Great Brain lies above the plane of the tentorium, and forms much the largest division of the encephalon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
This is mainly an inference from the total weight of the encephalon.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin
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