encephalon
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Brains win, in the journalistic world as elsewhere, and "blowing" a circulation were equivalent to employing a brass band to call attention to the abnormal size of the editorial encephalon.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
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
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 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
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