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Word: Metencephalon
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 19th century (in an earlier sense). From meta- + encephalon, perhaps after German Nachhirn afterbrain
Definition:
The anterior division of the rhombencephalon (hindbrain) in the vertebrate embryo.
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