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encephalon
 
Noun encephalon has 1 sense
  1. brain, encephalon - that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
    --1 is a kind of neural structure
    --1 is a part of
     head, caput; central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale
     --1 has parts:
     circle of Willis; communicating artery, arteria communicans; brain cell; neencephalon, neoencephalon; forebrain, prosencephalon; midbrain, mesencephalon; hindbrain, rhombencephalon; brainstem, brain-stem, brain stem; ventricle
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