Prosencephalon

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The forebrain.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Forebrain.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.
  • n. The cerebrum.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The fore-brain; the cerebral hemispheres, together with the callosum, striate bodies, and fornix. It may also include the rhinencephalon.
  • n. All of the parts developed from the anterior of the three primary cerebral vesicles, including, in addition to those of , the thalamencephalon. Also called procerebrum.
  • n. The second cranial segment, counting from before backward, of the four of which the head has been theoretically assumed to be composed. See cuts under encephalon and Petromyzontidæ.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    neural structure   
    Variant
    prosencephala   
     
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