encephalon

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “within the head”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈsɛfələn/, /ɛnˈsɛfəlɒn/, [ɛnˈsɛfəln̩], [ɛnˈsɛfəlɔn]; (in US, also) IPA^(key): /ɪn-/, /-ˈsɛfəlɑn/‚ [ɪnˈsɛfəɫn̩], [ɪnˈsɛfəɫɑn]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

encephalon (plural encephalons or encephala)

1. (neuroanatomy, especially embryologic neuroanatomy) The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; synonym of brain.

   Meronyms: prosencephalon, telencephalon, diencephalon; mesencephalon; rhombencephalon, metencephalon, myelencephalon

Derived terms

• encephalonize
• metencephalon
• myelencephalon
• palaeoencephalon
• paleoencephalon
• parencephalon
• rhombencephalon
• thalamencephalon

Related terms

• anencephaly
• cephalo- (and its derivatives)
• encephalic (adj)
• encephalitis
• encephalo- (and its derivatives)
• encephalomyelitis
• encephalomyelopathy
• encephalopathy

Translations

brain

• Basque: entzefalo
• Bulgarian: мозък (bg) m (mozǎk)
• Catalan: encèfal (ca) m
• French: encéphale (fr) m
• Galician: encéfalo (gl)
• Ido: encefalo (io)
• Ingrian: pääaivo
• Italian: encefalo (it) m
• Ottoman Turkish: دماغ (dimağ)
• Polish: mózgowie n
• Portuguese: encéfalo (pt) m
• Romanian: encefal (ro) n
• Spanish: encéfalo (es) m