encephalon
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encephala
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noun
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Origin of encephalon
1735–45; < New Latin, alteration ( -on for -os ) of Greek enképhalos (adj.) within the head, as masculine noun, brain; see en- 2, -cephalous
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Beyond this, it is an excitant of the cerebro-spinal axis, later it has a peculiar action on the encephalon, manifest in a wide range of psychical phenomena.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
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 John Augustine Zahm
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 William Cowper Brann
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
The literal references to the foregoing are: am, amnion; al, allantois; v, vitellus; h, encephalon; i, eye; c, heart; f, liver; g, gizzard; ms, upper, and mi, lower member.
From Was Man Created? by Henry A. (Henry Augustus) Mott
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