encephalon
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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
I consider the significance of the encephalon to depend upon the number and size of the cells composing it.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
This is mainly an inference from the total weight of the encephalon.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
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
