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forebrain
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun forebrain has 1 sense
- forebrain(n = noun.body) prosencephalon - the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube; Array is a kind of neural structure
has parts: cerebral peduncle, peduncle, corpus callosum, telencephalon, betweenbrain, diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon
is a part of brain, encephalon
CIDE DICTIONARY
forebrain, n.
The anterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the prosencephalon and thalamencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the prosencephalon only. See Brain. [1913 Webster]
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