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encephalon > noun, body
MeaningThat part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers. Enclosed within the skull. Continuous with the spinal cord.
Synonymsbrain
Part ofcentral nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale; head, caput
Partscircle of Willis; communicating artery, arteria communicans; brain cell; neencephalon, neoencephalon; forebrain, prosencephalon; midbrain, mesencephalon; hindbrain, rhombencephalon; brainstem, brain-stem, brain stem; ventricle
Broaderneural structure

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