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"ref": "1904, Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker, Text-book of Human Physiology",
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"ref": "1961, Analog Science Fact, Science Fiction - Volume 68",
"text": "From the evolutionary standpoint, the afterbrain will never develop if the forebrain makes all of the decisions."
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"ref": "2001, Dennis Smith, Crystals",
"text": "[...] Ehrlingarns call the “afterbrain”. It is where telepathy and telekinesis are controlled. Telepaths have that organ greafly enlarged. In fact, some of them have trouble with it pinching off nerve impulses between the body and the cerebrum.",
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"(anatomy) A posterior subdivision of the hindbrain; the myelencephalon"
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"sense": "part of brain",
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"sense": "part of brain",
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"text": "From the evolutionary standpoint, the afterbrain will never develop if the forebrain makes all of the decisions."
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"sense": "part of brain",
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"sense": "part of brain",
"word": "mielencéfalo"
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"sense": "part of brain",
"word": "mielencefalo"
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