encephalon

Noun encephalon has 1 sense

• encephalon(n = noun.body) brain - that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord;
has parts: circle of willis, arteria communicans, communicating artery, brain cell, neencephalon, neoencephalon, forebrain, prosencephalon, mesencephalon, midbrain, hindbrain, rhombencephalon, brain-stem, brain stem, brainstem, ventricle
is a kind of neural structure
is a part of central nervous system, cns, systema nervosum centrale, caput, head