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Diencephalon

Definition: Diencephalon

Diencephalon

Noun

1. The posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Diencephalon \Di`en*ceph"a*lon\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Dia-, and Encephalon.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: Diencephalon

DomainDefinitions

Health

The paired caudal parts of the prosencephalon from which the thalamus, hypothalamus, epithalamus, and subthalamus are derived. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Diencephalon

Synonyms: betweenbrain (n), interbrain (n), thalmencephalon (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Diencephalon

English words defined with "diencephalon": foramen of Monrohypothalamusinterventricular foramenMonro's foramenpineal eyeThalamencephalon, thalamus, third eye. (references)
Specialty definitions using "diencephalon": Brain Hemorrhage, TraumaticCentral Nervous System DiseasesEpithalamusGeniculate BodiesIntracranial Hemorrhage, Traumaticoptic pedicle, optic stalkpediculus cupulae opticae, posterior commissure, posterior commissure of the cerebrum, Prefrontal CortexSubthalamus. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Diencephalon

DomainTitle

Books

  • A stereotaxic atlas of the diencephalon and related structures of the mouse (reference)

  • Derivatives of the Prosencephalon: Diencephalon and Telencephalon (reference)

  • Surgery of the Diencephalon (Contemporary Perspectives in Neurosurgery) (reference)

  • The Diencephalon and Sleep (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Diencephalon

"Diencephalon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Diencephalon" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Diencephalon

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

diencephalon

9
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Modern Translations: Diencephalon

Language Translations for "diencephalon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

diencephalon, midthjernen. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

diencephalon, tussenhersenen. (various references)

   

French

  

diencéphale, cerveau intermédiaire. (various references)

   

German

  

Dienzephalon, Dienkephalon, Zwischenhirn. (various references)

   

Italian

  

diencefalo. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"脳 (the diencephalon, the interbrain). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

か"のう (divine response, encouragement of agriculture, full payment or delivery, induction, inspiration, proficient, skillful, sympathy, the diencephalon, the interbrain, the senses). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iencephalonday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Diencephalon

Derivations

Words beginning with "diencephalon": diencephalons. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Diencephalon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-i-l-n-n-o-p"

-2 letters: anopheline, encephalon.

-3 letters: anhedonic, candlepin, celandine, channeled, chelonian, decennial, enchained, indolence, pinnacled.

-4 letters: aphelion, canopied, cephalin, cheliped, decennia, diaphone, echidnae, elaphine, enhaloed, enhanced, enneadic, enplaned, headline, lichened, nonideal, oedipean, palinode, panicled, penanced, penciled, penoncel, phelonia, phenolic, pinecone, pineland, pinnacle, pinochle, pleached.

-5 letters: adenine, alencon, aliened, annelid, aphonic, apnoeic, calipee, cannoli, capelin, celadon, cepheid, chained.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-i-l-n-n-o-p"
 

+1 letter: diencephalons.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Diencephalon


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 65 6E 63 65 70 68 61 6C 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 01110000 01101000 01100001 01101100 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#112 &#104 &#97 &#108 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0065 006E 0063 0065 0070 0068 0061 006C 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387571806971827467788180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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