Encephalos[1] sive encephalus[2] sive encephalon[3] sive encephalum[2] est maxima et altissima pars systematis nervosi centralis in cavo cranii animalium vertebratum clausa. Encephalon in medulla spinali prolongatur et cum multis organis per nervos cerebrales connectitur.

Encephalon in has partes divisum est secundum eius evolutionem embryologicam:

Divisio alia, simplicior commodiorque, in tribus partibus consistit, quae faciliter videri possunt:

Notae recensere

  1. Kraus, L.A. (1844). Kritisch-etymologisches medicinisches Lexikon (Dritte Auflage). Göttingen: Verlag der Deuerlich- und Dieterichschen Buchhandlung.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Foster, F.D. (1891-1893). An illustrated medical dictionary. Being a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French, and German languages. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
  3. Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology (1998). Terminologia Anatomica. Stuttgart: Thieme
  4. Hyrtl, J. (1880). Onomatologia Anatomica. Geschichte und Kritik der anatomischen Sprache der Gegenwart. Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller. K.K. Hof- und Unversitätsbuchhändler.