Usually means: Midbrain, connects forebrain and hindbrain.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Mesencephalon:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. mesencephalon: Merriam-Webster
  2. mesencephalon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mesencephalon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mesencephalon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mesencephalon: Vocabulary.com
  6. mesencephalon: Wordnik
  7. Mesencephalon: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. mesencephalon: Wiktionary
  9. mesencephalon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mesencephalon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mesencephalon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mesencephalon: Dictionary.com
  13. Mesencephalon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Mesencephalon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. mesencephalon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. mesencephalon: Rhymezone
  17. Mesencephalon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mesencephalon: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mesencephalon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. mesencephalon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mesencephalon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. mesencephalon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Mesencephalon: Anatomy of the Human Body
  5. Mesencephalon: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. mesencephalon: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mesencephalon)

▸ noun:  A part of the brain located rostral to the pons and caudal to the thalamus and the basal ganglia, composed of the tectum (dorsal portion) and the tegmentum (ventral portion).

Similar:
midbrain, thalamencephalon, tegmentum, hemimesencephalon, afterbrain, mesopontine, ventral tegmentum, pretectum, mesocoel, median eminence, more...

Opposite:
rhombencephalon, prosencephalon, forebrain

Phrases:
tectum of mesencephalon, tegmentum of mesencephalon, more...

Adjectives:
rostral, fetal, caudal, human, dorsal, ventral, embryonic, upper, low, foetal, rat

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Similar:
midbrain, thalamencephalon, tegmentum, hemimesencephalon, afterbrain, mesopontine, ventral tegmentum, pretectum, mesocoel, median eminence, more...

Opposite:
rhombencephalon, prosencephalon, forebrain

Phrases:
tectum of mesencephalon, tegmentum of mesencephalon, more...

Adjectives:
rostral, fetal, caudal, human, dorsal, ventral, embryonic, upper, low, foetal, rat



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