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Mesocephalon :: Mesocephalon (n.) The pons Varolii.

Infundibulum :: Infundibulum (n.) The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda.

Cephalocercal :: Cephalocercal (a.) Relating to the long axis of the body.

Microcephalous :: Microcephalous (a.) Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to megacephalic.

Mesencephalic :: Mesencephalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.

Encephalic :: Encephalic (a.) Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.

Currant :: Currant (n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery..

Macrocephalous :: Macrocephalous (a.) Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body..

Hydrocephalous :: Hydrocephalous (a.) Having hydrocephalus.

Polythalamous :: Polythalamous (a.) Many-chambered; -- applied to shells of Foraminifera and cephalopods. See Illust. of Nautilus.

Cephalo :: Cephalo () A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod..

Chromatophore :: Chromatophore (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods..

Head :: Head (n.) The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon..

Acetabulifera :: Acetabulifera (n. pl.) The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda..

Rhinencephalic :: Rhinencephalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.

Ammonite :: Ammonite (n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis..

Aurocephalous :: Aurocephalous (a.) Having a gold-colored head.

Acephalous :: Acephalous (a.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry..

Dicyemata :: Dicyemata (n. pl.) An order of worms parasitic in cephalopods. They are remarkable for the extreme simplicity of their structure. The embryo exists in two forms.

Rhinencephalon :: Rhinencephalon (n.) The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise..

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