encephalon
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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
The Cerebrum or Great Brain lies above the plane of the tentorium, and forms much the largest division of the encephalon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
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
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
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
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