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metencephalons

metencephalons is the plural of metencephalon.

Meaning of metencephalon

Noun

metencephalon (plural metencephalons or metencephala)

  1. The portion of the embryonic rhombencephalon from which the pons and cerebellum arise.

Questions about metencephalons

What is metencephalons the plural of?
Metencephalons is the plural of metencephalon.

Words near metencephalons in the dictionary

  1. metencephala
  2. metencephalic
  3. metencephalin
  4. metencephalins
  5. metencephalon
  6. metencephalons
  7. metendosternite
  8. metenkephalin
  9. metensomatoses
  10. metensomatosis
  11. meteoclimatic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metencephalons (page history and authors); metencephalon (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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