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encephalon

[en-sef-uh-lon, -luhn] / ɛnˈsɛf əˌlɒn, -lən /


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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

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

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie

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

It really occupies only its median and superior portion, and a small section of the anterior surface of the spinal cord, adjacent to the encephalon.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan

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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