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Encephalon Moderate

Encephalon has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

2

The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; the brain.

See Also
encephalos cranioencephalic centrencephalic encephalization anencephaly thalamencephalic encephalic spinal cord
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
neural structure
Rhyming Words
lon alon elon clon bolon nylon adlon salon pylon azlon malon cylon rulon felon arlon talon delon solon orlon balon
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