encephalon

“The coagula I easily removed and passed the little finger of my left hand through the perfectly smooth opening made by the ball, and found that it had entered the encephalon.”

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

I consider the significance of the encephalon to depend upon the number and size of the cells composing it.

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.

The Cerebrum or Great Brain lies above the plane of the tentorium, and forms much the largest division of the encephalon.