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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the brain.
  • adjective Located within the cranial cavity.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the encephalon; cerebral.
  • Situated in the head or within the cranial cavity; intracranial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of or relating to the encephalon

Etymologies

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encephalon +‎ -ic

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