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encephaloid

encephaloid adjective: resembling the brain (cerebriform), or the material of the brain.

Adjective

encephaloid (comparative more encephaloid, superlative most encephaloid)

  1. (dated) Resembling the brain (cerebriform), or the material of the brain.
    • encephaloid cancer
    • encephaloid tumor

Noun

encephaloid (plural encephaloids)

  1. (archaic) A malignant cancer of brain-like consistency.

encephaloid meaning in Tamil

encephaloid in Tamil

மென்புற்று

Forms of encephaloid

Adjective
comparativemore encephaloid
superlativemost encephaloid
Noun
pluralencephaloids

Origin of encephaloid

From encephalo- + -oid.

Questions about encephaloid

What does encephaloid mean?
Encephaloid means resembling the brain (cerebriform), or the material of the brain.
What is encephaloid in Tamil?
Encephaloid in Tamil is மென்புற்று. See Encephaloid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is encephaloid?
Encephaloid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near encephaloid in the dictionary

  1. encephalographic
  2. encephalographically
  3. encephalographies
  4. encephalographs
  5. encephalography
  6. encephaloid
  7. encephaloids
  8. encephalology
  9. encephaloma
  10. encephalomalacia
  11. encephalomalacias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encephaloid (page history and authors); encephaloid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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