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prosencephalon

 [pros″en-sef´ah-lon]
1. the portion of the brain developed from the anterior of the three primary brain vesicles in the early embryo, comprising the diencephalon and telencephalon.
2. the most anterior of the primary brain vesicles; called also forebrain.
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pros·en·ceph·a·lon

(pros'en-sef'ă-lon), [TA]
The anterior primordial cerebral vesicle and the most rostral of the three primary brain vesicles of the embryonic neural tube; it subdivides to form the diencephalon and telencephalon.
Synonym(s): forebrain vesicle ☆ , forebrain ☆ , proencephalon
[G. prosō, forward, + enkephalos, brain]
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forebrain

(fôr′brān′)
n.
1. The most anterior of the three primary regions of the embryonic brain from which the telencephalon and diencephalon develop.
2. The segment of the adult brain that develops from the embryonic forebrain and includes the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus.
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pros·en·ceph·a·lon

(pros'en-sef'ă-lon) [TA]
The anterior primordial cerebral vesicle and the most rostral of the three primary brain vesicles of the embryonic neural tube; it subdivides to form the diencephalon and telencephalon.
Synonym(s): forebrain.
[G. prosō, forward, + enkephalos, brain]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

forebrain

that part of the brain which gives rise to the CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES, olfactory lobes, the PINEAL GLAND, PITUITARY GLAND and the OPTIC CHIASMA (which carries nerve fibres from the eyes to the midbrain). It is marked by a constriction in the developing embryo where the brain appears to be three-lobed, the forebrain, MIDBRAIN and HINDBRAIN.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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