PROSENCEPHALON (prosencephala)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: prosencephala   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does prosencephalon mean? 

• PROSENCEPHALON (noun)
  The noun PROSENCEPHALON has 1 sense:

1. the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube

  Familiarity information: PROSENCEPHALON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSENCEPHALON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

forebrain; prosencephalon

Hypernyms ("prosencephalon" is a kind of...):

neural structure (a structure that is part of the nervous system)

Meronyms (parts of "prosencephalon"):

cerebral peduncle; peduncle (a bundle of myelinated neurons joining different parts of the brain)

corpus callosum (a broad transverse nerve tract connecting the two cerebral hemispheres)

telencephalon (the anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus)

betweenbrain; diencephalon; interbrain; thalmencephalon (the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon)

Holonyms ("prosencephalon" is a part of...):

brain; encephalon (that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord)

 Context examples 

The paired caudal parts of the prosencephalon from which the THALAMUS, HYPOTHALAMUS, EPITHALAMUS, and SUBTHALAMUS are derived.

(Diencephalon, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Develops from the middle of the 3 primary vesicles of the embryonic neural tube, between the prosencephalon and rhombencephalon, later forming the tectum and cerebral peduncles.

(Mesencephalon, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)