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Definition of Telencephalon

1. Noun. The anterior division of the forebrain; the cerebrum and related parts of the hypothalamus.

Definition of Telencephalon

1. Noun. (neuroanatomy) The anterior part of the forebrain; the endbrain ¹

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Definition of Telencephalon

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Medical Definition of Telencephalon

1. Paired anteriolateral evaginations of the prosencephalon plus the lamina terminalis. The cerebral hemispheres are derived from it. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telencephalon

Literary usage of Telencephalon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"telencephalon. The telencephalon or end-brain includes : The ... In order to study the morphology of the telencephalon to the best advantage, one proceeds ..."

2. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"telencephalon. The telencephalon or end-brain includes : The ... In order to study the morphology of the telencephalon to the best advantage, one proceeds ..."

3. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"telencephalon. The telencephalon or end-brain includes: The ... In order to study the morphology of the telencephalon to the best advantage, one proceeds in ..."

4. The Development of the Chick: An Introduction to Embryology by Frank Rattray Lillie (1908)
"telencephalon. The telencephalon is bounded posteriorly, as noted in the last ... The telencephalon medium has grown but little since the fourth day, ..."

5. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"The telencephalon includes the two cerebral hemispheres. The name cerebrum is also applied ... The term will here be used as synonymous with telencephalon. ..."

6. A Laboratory Manual and Text-book of Embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1915)
"The telencephalon.—This is the most highly differentiated division of the brain (Fig. 326). The primitive structures of the neural tube can no longer be ..."

7. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lesions o( the End Brain (telencephalon), Causing Motor and Sensory Disturbances The two cerebral hemispheres are united by the corpus callosum and by the ..."

8. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"... layer of epithelium of ependymal origin, which is adapted to every uneven- ness of its surface (Fig. 155). • THE BASAL GANGLIA OF THE telencephalon ..."

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