encephalon

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I consider the significance of the encephalon to depend upon the number and size of the cells composing it.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin

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 Zahm, John Augustine

The physiological experimenter has also made it evident that the decussation of the conductors of sensitive impressions has its seat in the spinal core, and not in the encephalon, as had been supposed.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The central portion comprises the brain or encephalon and the spinal cord.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

This is mainly an inference from the total weight of the encephalon.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin