Diencephalon

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  • noun. The posterior part of the forebrain that connects the midbrain with the cerebral hemispheres, encloses the third ventricle, and contains the thalamus and hypothalamus.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In anatomy, the inter-brain or middle brain, otherwise known as the deutencephalon and thalamencephalon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See thalamencephalon.
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  • noun. 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.
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  • noun. the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon
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