RhombencephalonWordNet Explorer

the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem

a structure that is part of the nervous system

that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord

the part of the hindbrain that develops into the pons and the cerebellum

a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans

the posterior part of the hindbrain in developing vertebrates; forms the medulla oblongata in adults