forebrain

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-der.

Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂ey

Proto-Germanic *furai

Proto-Germanic *furai-

Proto-West Germanic *forē-

Old English fore-

Middle English fore-

English fore-

Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-n̥

Proto-Indo-European *mrógʰ-n̥ ~ *mrégʰ-n̥-s

Proto-Germanic *bragną

Proto-West Germanic *bragn

Old English bræġn

Middle English brayn

English brain

English forebrain

From fore- + brain.

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Noun

forebrain (plural forebrains)

1. (neuroanatomy) The anterior part of the brain, including the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus.

   Synonym: prosencephalon

   Antonym: afterbrain

   • 2012, Volker A Coenen, Jaak Panksepp, Trevor A Hurwitz, Horst Urbach, Burkhard Mädler, “Human medial forebrain bundle (MFB) and anterior thalamic radiation (ATR): imaging of two major subcortical pathways and the dynamic balance of opposite affects in understanding depression”, in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, →DOI, →PMID:

     The medial forebrain bundle (MFB), a key structure of reward-seeking circuitry, remains inadequately characterized in humans despite its vast importance for emotional processing and development of addictions and depression.

Meronyms

• cerebrum
• thalamus
• hypothalamus
• diencephalon
• telencephalon

Derived terms

• hemiforebrain

Translations

part of the brain

• Armenian: առաջային ուղեղ (aṙaǰayin uġeġ)
• Breton: ragempenn m
• Czech: přední mozek m
• Dutch: voorhersen
• Estonian: eesaju
• Finnish: etuaivot
• French: prosencéphale (fr) m, cerveau antérieur (fr) m
• German: Vorderhirn (de)
• Greek: πρόσθιος εγκέφαλος m (prósthios egkéfalos)
• Gujarati: અગ્રમસ્તિષ્ક (agramastiṣk)
• Hindi: अग्रमस्तिष्क (agramastiṣk)
• Hungarian: előagy (hu)
• Japanese: 前脳 (ja) (zennō)
• Javanese: ꦲꦸꦠꦼꦏ꧀​ꦔꦗꦼꦁ (utek ngajeng)
• Kazakh: алдыңғы ми (aldıŋğı mıy)
• Korean: 전뇌 (jeonnoe), 앞뇌 (amnoe)
• Latvian: priekšējās smadzenes
• Marathi: अग्रमस्तिष्क (agramastiṣka)
• Polish: przodomózgowie n
• Portuguese: prosencéfalo m
• Russian: пере́дний мозг (perédnij mozg)
• Spanish: prosencéfalo (es) m
• Swedish: framhjärna (sv), prosencefalon (sv)
• Tagalog: harapangutak
• Tamil: முன்மூளை (muṉmūḷai)
• Turkish: ön beyin
• Ukrainian: передній мозок (perednij mozok)
• Welsh: blaen-ymennydd m

See also

• afterbrain
• hindbrain
• midbrain