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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of the brain which lies behind the hind brain; the last encephalic segment, following the hind brain; the medulla oblongata as far as the pons Varolii: called
metencephalon by Wilder and Gage, and myelencephalon by Huxley and others. See these words.
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