rhombencephalon

Other forms of rhombencephalon

plural

rhombencephalons·

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 rhombencephalon

What does rhombencephalon mean?

rhombencephalon means "the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem".

How many syllables are in rhombencephalon?

rhombencephalon has 5 syllables: rhom-ben-ce-pha-lon. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for rhombencephalon?

Close synonyms include hindbrain. 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 rhombencephalon a common word?

rhombencephalon 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.