diencephalon

English

Diencephalon of an embryonic brain

Etymology

From New Latin diencephalon, from di-, prevocalic form of dia- +‎ encephalon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪənˈsɛfəlɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ̯.ənˈsɛfəlɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ̯.ənˈsɛfəlɑn/

Noun

diencephalon (plural diencephalons or diencephala)

1. (neuroanatomy, anatomy) The region of the human brain, specifically the human forebrain, that includes the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the epithalamus, the prethalamus or subthalamus, and the pretectum.

Synonyms

• interbrain
• 'tweenbrain
• twixtbrain

Meronyms

• thalamus
• hypothalamus
• epithalamus
• prethalamus
• subthalamus
• pretectum
• See also Thesaurus:diencephalon

Holonyms

• forebrain

Translations

region of the human brain

• Azerbaijani: ara beyin
• Catalan: diencèfal m
• Czech: mezimozek m
• Danish: mellemhjernen
• Dutch: tussenhersen
• Estonian: vaheaju
• Finnish: väliaivot (fi)
• French: diencéphale (fr) m
• German: Zwischenhirn (de), Diencephalon (de) n, Dienzephalon (de) n
• Greek: διεγκέφαλος m (diegkéfalos)
• Hungarian: köztiagy (hu)
• Italian: diencefalo
• Japanese: 間脳 (ja) (かんのう, kannō)
• Kazakh: аралық ми (aralyq mi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: demaxê navber m, navberedemax m

• Latvian: starpsmadzenes
• Lithuanian: tarpinės smegenys
• Persian: مغز میانجی (maġz miyânji)
• Polish: międzymózgowie (pl) n
• Portuguese: diencéfalo m
• Russian: промежу́точный мозг (promežútočnyj mozg)
• Sicilian: dincèfalu
• Spanish: diencéfalo m
• Swedish: mellanhjärna (sv), diencefalon (sv)
• Turkish: ara beyin
• Vietnamese: não trung gian, não giữa

See also

• diencephalon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “diencephalon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “diencephalon”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “diencephalon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.