mesencephalon

Other forms of mesencephalon

plural

mesencephalons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mesencephalon

What does mesencephalon mean?

mesencephalon means "the middle portion of the brain".

How many syllables are in mesencephalon?

mesencephalon has 5 syllables: me-sen-ce-pha-lon. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for mesencephalon?

Close synonyms include midbrain. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mesencephalon a common word?

mesencephalon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.