encephalon
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The central portion comprises the brain or encephalon and the spinal cord.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
Broca, the most eminent of French anthropologists, regarded as an absurdity the attempt to establish a necessary relation between the development of intelligence and the volume and weight of the encephalon.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
The astronomical knowledge of the encephalon, that is, the most intimate to which we can aspire, only reveals to us matter in motion.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
Cerebral Neuralgia.—We enter, here, on an extremely obscure and doubtful subject: Can there be pain in the central masses of the encephalon?
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
It really occupies only its median and superior portion, and a small section of the anterior surface of the spinal cord, adjacent to the encephalon.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
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