encephalon
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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
The astronomical knowledge of the encephalon, that is, the most intimate to which we can aspire, only reveals to us matter in motion.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
In the mollusc, on the contrary, the retina is derived from the ectoderm directly, and not indirectly by means of the embryonic encephalon.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
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
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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