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Word Meanings - MESENCEPHALON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

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  • MESENTERY
    The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
  • MIDDLE
    1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
  • MESENTERON
    All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod, a
  • SOMETIMES
    1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
  • SEGMENT
    A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration. A piece in the
  • MESENCEPHALIC
    Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.
  • MIDDLE-GROUND
    That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
  • ABBREVIATION
    One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore. (more info) 1. The act of shortening, or reducing. 2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor. 3. The form to
  • MIDDLE-EARTH
    The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
  • ABBREVIATED
    Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
  • ABBREVIATORY
    Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.
  • MIDDLEMAN
    The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
  • MIDBRAIN
    The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
  • MESENCEPHALON
    The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.
  • ABBREVIATOR
    1. One who abbreviates or shortens. 2. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official
  • MIDDLER
    One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
  • BRAIN
    The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord,
  • SEGMENTATION
    The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically , a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity , the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells
  • MIDDLE-AGE
    Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediƦval.
  • BRAINSICKLY
    In a brainsick manner.
  • ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
    A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
  • SICK-BRAINED
    Disordered in the brain.
  • SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
    Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
  • CRACK-BRAINED
    Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
  • FAT-BRAINED
    Dull of apprehension.
  • BISEGMENT
    One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
  • 'TWIXT-BRAIN
    The thalamen
  • MADBRAINED
    Disordered in mind; hot-headed. Shak.
  • SHALLOW-BRAINED
    Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.

 

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