Hypertext Webster Gateway: "encephalon"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Encephalon \En*ceph"a*lon\, n. [NL. See {Encephalos}.] (Anat.)
The contents of the cranium; the brain.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
encephalon
n : that part of the central nervous system that includes all
the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull;
continuous with the spinal cord [syn: {brain}]
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