Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The anterior portion of the forebrain, constituting the cerebral hemispheres and related parts. Also called endbrain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as prosen-cephalon.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus
Examples
“This was the telencephalon, whose principal part was the neocortex, a dense rind of nerve fibers about an eighth of an inch thick that was simply molded over top of the existing mammal brain.”
“In the telencephalon-the new brain-the floral similarity increases.”
“Enhanced telencephalon olfactory lobes…hammerheads can smell a droplet of blood a mile away.”
“These guys have the best noses in the sea—enhanced telencephalon olfactory lobes.”
““The urine is the key,” she heard him saying, “because those damned telencephalon olfactory lobes can smell everything!””
“Enhanced telencephalon olfactory lobes … hammerheads can smell a droplet of blood a mile away.”
“These guys have the best noses in the sea – enhanced telencephalon olfactory lobes.”
“The urine is the key," she heard him saying, "because those damned telencephalon olfactory lobes can smell everything!”
“The cerebral hemispheres themselves are the telencephalon ( "end-brain" G), because this is the end of the central nervous system if you work from the bottom up, whereas the basal ganglia, thalamus, and hypothalamus are the diencephalon { "between-brain" G}.”
“The fore-brain undergoes great modification: its anterior part or telencephalon expands laterally in the form of two hollow vesicles, the cavities of which become the lateral ventricles, while the surrounding walls form the cerebral hemispheres and their commissures; the cavity of the posterior part or diencephalon forms the greater part of the third ventricle, and from its walls are developed most of the structures which bound that cavity.”
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