encephalic

Definitions

of or relating to the encephalon

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“From men wholly without philosophy, who never looked heavenward, the more brutal land⟳ animals are derived, losing the round form⟳ of the cranium by the slackening and stopping of the rotations of the encephalic soul.”

“The misfortune was that he could not find⟳ in himself any of the causes which resolve⟳ into insomnia; he had neither meningitis nor brain fever, nor anything that indicated a cerebral tumor; he was not anaemic; he ate well; he did not suffer⟳ with neuralgia, nor with any acute or chronic affection that generally accompanied the absence of sleep⟳; he drank neither tea nor alcohol; and without this state of over-excitement of the encephalic centres, he might have⟳ said that he was in good health, a little thin, but that was all.”

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