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noun that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
originLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “within the head”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
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