Meanings
- not comparableof or relating to the encephalon
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.
1891, Addison and Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2.1 more example
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.
1905, Various, The Project Gutenberg Edition of "The French Immortals"
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian мозъчен
- мозъчен (mozăčen)relating to the encephalon
Catalan encefàlic
- encefàlicrelating to the encephalon
Greek εγκεφαλικός
- εγκεφαλικός (egkefalikós)relating to the encephalon
Italian encefalico
- encefalicorelating to the encephalon
Spanish encefálico
- encefálicorelating to the encephalon
Turkish beyincil
- beyincilrelating to the encephalon
Cite this entry
encephalic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/encephalic
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