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Noun: paleencephalon  `peyleeun'sefu`lón
  1. The more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex
    - paleoencephalon, palaeencephalon

Derived forms: paleencephalons

Type of: neural structure

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