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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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encephalon

(Anat.)

The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.

metencephalon ‎(plural metencephalons or metencephala)

(anatomy) the portion of the embryonic rhombencephalon from which the pons and cerebellum arise.