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encephalic

[ en-suh-fal-ik ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the encephalon or brain.


encephalic

/ ˌɛnsɪˈfælɪk; ˌɛnkɪ- /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the brain
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of encephalic1

First recorded in 1825–35; encephal- + -ic
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I ended up finding it easier to move through the encephalic color scans than the black-and-white projections.

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But this is a legislature that suffers its own collective encephalic disorder – Obama derangement syndrome – which absent the visceral immediacy of something like Ebola makes maintaining a budgetary hard line seem perfectly rational in the face of a potential epic medical crisis.

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On Monday, doctors attending Calero, 41, pronounced the former Pachuca goalie and the club's current goalkeeper coach brain dead after complications from an arterial thrombosis and encephalic edema.

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But man himself, a well-organized, thoughtful, intelligent, well-educated man, by a fall from a horse, by a tile from a roof, may receive an injury to his nervous encephalic apparatus, and may be, even while a man in shape, as low as the brute in the imbecility of his reason, and inferior to the brute in physical strength.

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It is females, in whom the encephalic development is larger than usual, that possess minds truly masculine.â€

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