encephalon

n. 脑, 脑髓 [医] 脑

发音

/ɛnˈsɛfələn/
/ɛnˈsɛfəlɒn/
其它 /ɪn-/
US /ɪn-/
其它 /-ˈsɛfəlɑn/
US /-ˈsɛfəlɑn/

词形变化

encephala encephalons 复数 encephalons encephala 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    医学

    Meronyms: prosencephalon, telencephalon, diencephalon; mesencephalon; rhombencephalon, metencephalon, myelencephalon

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

brain

部分词 10

ventricle brain cell brainstem circle of Willis communicating artery forebrain hindbrain mesencephalon midbrain prosencephalon

整体词 4

head caput central nervous system CNS

词源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “within the head”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

来源：wiktionary