encephalon

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(Anat.) The contents of the cranium; the brain.

Noun

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encephalon - that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord Synonyms: brain

arteria communicans, brain, brain cell, brain stem, brain-stem, brainstem, caput, central nervous system, circle of Willis, CNS, communicating artery, forebrain, head, hindbrain, mesencephalon, midbrain, neencephalon, neoencephalon, neural structure, prosencephalon, rhombencephalon, systema nervosum centrale, ventricle