Synset

that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

part meronym

circle of Willis communicating artery, arteria communicans brain cell neencephalon, neoencephalon forebrain, prosencephalon midbrain, mesencephalon hindbrain, rhombencephalon brainstem, brain-stem, brain stem ventricle

hypernym

neural structure

part holonym

central nervous system, CNS, systema nervosum centrale head, caput