mesencephalon
Americannoun
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mesencephala,
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mesencephalons
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noun
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Origin of mesencephalon
First recorded in 1840–50; mes- + encephalon
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There is also a connection of the optic tract to the midbrain, but the mesencephalon is adjacent to the diencephalon, so that is not difficult to imagine.
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The structures that come from the mesencephalon and rhombencephalon, except for the cerebellum, are collectively considered the brain stem,
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Whereas prosencephalon and mesencephalon translate into the English words forebrain and midbrain, there is not a word for “four-sided-figure-brain.”
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The mesencephalon, metencephalon, and myelencephalon become the brain stem.
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The mesencephalon or mid-brain, when looked at from the dorsal surface, shows a pair of large hollow swellings, the optic lobes or corpora bigemina.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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