Usually means: Forebrain's largest part, controls cognition.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word telencephalon:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. telencephalon: Merriam-Webster
  2. telencephalon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. telencephalon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. telencephalon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. telencephalon: Vocabulary.com
  6. telencephalon: Wordnik
  7. telencephalon: Wiktionary
  8. telencephalon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. telencephalon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. telencephalon: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. telencephalon: Dictionary.com
  12. Telencephalon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. telencephalon: Rhymezone
  14. telencephalon: FreeDictionary.org
  15. telencephalon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. telencephalon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. telencephalon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. telencephalon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Telencephalon: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. telencephalon: Medical dictionary

(Note: See telencephala as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (telencephalon)

▸ noun:  (neuroanatomy) The anterior part of the forebrain; the endbrain.

Similar:
endbrain, tencephalon, telecephalon, forebrain, prosencephalon, metencephalon, telencephalization, encephalon, rhombencephalon, diencephalon, more...

Opposite:
brainstem, hindbrain, medulloblongata

Adjectives:
basal, dorsal, avian, mammalian, human, vertebrate, primate, embryonic, monkey, anterior, entire

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Similar:
endbrain, tencephalon, telecephalon, forebrain, prosencephalon, metencephalon, telencephalization, encephalon, rhombencephalon, diencephalon, more...

Opposite:
brainstem, hindbrain, medulloblongata

Adjectives:
basal, dorsal, avian, mammalian, human, vertebrate, primate, embryonic, monkey, anterior, entire



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