Usually means: Part of brainstem; controls coordination.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. metencephalon: Merriam-Webster
  2. metencephalon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. metencephalon: Collins English Dictionary
  4. metencephalon: Vocabulary.com
  5. metencephalon: Wordnik
  6. metencephalon: Wiktionary
  7. metencephalon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. metencephalon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. metencephalon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. metencephalon: Dictionary.com
  11. Metencephalon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Metencephalon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. metencephalon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. metencephalon: Rhymezone
  15. Metencephalon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. metencephalon: FreeDictionary.org
  17. metencephalon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. metencephalon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metencephalon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. metencephalon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Metencephalon: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. metencephalon: Medical dictionary

(Note: See metencephala as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metencephalon)

▸ noun:  (neuroanatomy) The portion of the embryonic rhombencephalon from which the pons and cerebellum arise.

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rhombencephalon, telencephalon, hindbrain, myelencephalon, endbrain, prosencephalon, mesencephal, encephalon, rhombencephon, rhinencephalon, more...

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rhombencephalon, telencephalon, hindbrain, myelencephalon, endbrain, prosencephalon, mesencephal, encephalon, rhombencephon, rhinencephalon, more...



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