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Mesencephalon :: Mesencephalon (n.) The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

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

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..

Myelencephalon :: Myelencephalon (n.) The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; the neuron. Sometimes abbreviated to myelencephal.

Cephalon :: Cephalon (n.) The head.

Procoele :: Procoele (n.) A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain.

Prosocoele :: Prosocoele (n.) The entire cavity of the prosencephalon.

Postencephalon :: Postencephalon (n.) The metencephalon.

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

Thalamencephalon :: Thalamencephalon (n.) The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain..

En- :: En- () A prefix from Gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-..

Midbrain :: Midbrain (n.) The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.

Metencephalon :: Metencephalon (n.) The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten..

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

Mesocoelia :: Mesocoelia (n.) The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter.

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..

Myelencephalic :: Myelencephalic (a.) Of or pertaining to the myelencephalon; cerebro-spinal.

Interbrain :: Interbrain (n.) See Thalamencephalon.

Pons :: Pons (n.) A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain..

Myelencephalon :: Myelencephalon (n.) The metencephalon.

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