Usually means: Posterior part of the brainstem.
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  1. myelencephalon: Merriam-Webster
  2. myelencephalon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. myelencephalon: Collins English Dictionary
  4. myelencephalon: Vocabulary.com
  5. myelencephalon: Wordnik
  6. myelencephalon: Wiktionary
  7. myelencephalon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. myelencephalon: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. myelencephalon: Dictionary.com
  10. Myelencephalon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Myelencephalon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. myelencephalon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. myelencephalon: Rhymezone
  14. Myelencephalon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. myelencephalon: FreeDictionary.org
  16. myelencephalon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. myelencephalon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. myelencephalon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. myelencephalon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Myelencephalon: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. myelencephalon: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (myelencephalon)

▸ noun:  (neuroanatomy) The portion of the brain composed of the medulla oblongata.

Similar:
medulla, medulla oblongata, metencephalon, telencephalon, hindbrain, encephalon, endbrain, olive, rhombencephalon, mesencephal, more...

Opposite:
prosencephalon, forebrain

Types:
medulloblongata, pons, midbrain, hindbrain, more...

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Similar:
medulla, medulla oblongata, metencephalon, telencephalon, hindbrain, encephalon, endbrain, olive, rhombencephalon, mesencephal, more...

Opposite:
prosencephalon, forebrain

Types:
medulloblongata, pons, midbrain, hindbrain, more...



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