prosencephalon

Other forms of prosencephalon

plural

prosencephala

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 prosencephalon

What does prosencephalon mean?

prosencephalon means "the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube".

How many syllables are in prosencephalon?

prosencephalon has 5 syllables and divides as pro-sen-ce-pha-lon under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for prosencephalon?

Close synonyms include forebrain. 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 prosencephalon a common word?

prosencephalon 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.