Word

encephalon, n.
(encephala)

that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
<noun.body> freq. cnt.: 22 freq. cnt.: 22

brain encephalon

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

brain brain

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