a. [f. Gr. ἐγκέφαλ-ος the brain + -IC.] Pertaining to the brain or ENCEPHALON.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 447. Every encephalic nerve is enveloped by an external membrane.
1865. Grote, Plato, II. xxiii. 159. The … (encephalic) soul, located in the head.
1870. W. H. Bullock, in Daily News, 1 Nov., 5/1. Typhoid fever of the encephalic type.
