Word Meanings - MESENCEPHALIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.

Related words: (words related to MESENCEPHALIC)

• MIDBRAIN
  The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
• MESENCEPHALON
  The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach