encephalon

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“The coagula I easily removed and passed the little finger of my left hand through the perfectly smooth opening made by the ball, and found that it had entered the encephalon.”

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Cerebral Neuralgia.—We enter, here, on an extremely obscure and doubtful subject: Can there be pain in the central masses of the encephalon?

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I consider the significance of the encephalon to depend upon the number and size of the cells composing it.

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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.

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The Cerebrum or Great Brain lies above the plane of the tentorium, and forms much the largest division of the encephalon.

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