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encephalons

encephalons is the plural of encephalon.

Meaning of encephalon

Noun

encephalon (plural encephalons or encephala)

  1. 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

Questions about encephalons

What is encephalons the plural of?
Encephalons is the plural of encephalon.

Words near encephalons in the dictionary

  1. encephaloneuropathy
  2. encephalonize
  3. encephalonized
  4. encephalonizes
  5. encephalonizing
  6. encephalons
  7. encephalopathia
  8. encephalopathias
  9. encephalopathic
  10. encephalopathical
  11. encephalopathies

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