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Encephalon

Encephalon meaning

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.

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Aristotle and Herophilus (quoted in Galen ) called it the parencephalis, as opposed to the encephalon or brain proper.