encéphale — meaning in English
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English meaning
- brain noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
- encephalon noun The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; synonym of brain.
Senses
encéphale is used for these senses in English:
- brain (informal) An intelligent person.
- encephalon (neuroanatomy, especially, embryologic neuroanatomy) The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; synonym of brain.
brain — full definition
- noun The organ inside the skull that controls thought, memory, emotion, and the rest of the nervous system.
- noun A person's intelligence or mental ability.
- noun An especially intelligent person, or the person supplying the ideas behind a plan.
- verb Informal: to hit someone hard on the head.