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Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
1. encephalon
noun. that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord.
Synonyms
- neencephalon
- forebrain
- caput
- communicating artery
- rhombencephalon
- head
- systema nervosum centrale
- arteria communicans
- brain cell
- CNS
- midbrain
- neural structure
- brain stem
- hindbrain
- circle of Willis
- brain
- brain-stem
- central nervous system
- mesencephalon
- prosencephalon
- brainstem
- neoencephalon
Antonyms
- follower
- natural depression
- follow
- rear
Etymology
- ἐγκέφαλος (Ancient Greek (to 1453))