EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Cerebrum or Great Brain lies above the plane of the tentorium, and forms much the largest division of the encephalon.

Detailed explanation-2: -Definitions of encephalon. that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord. synonyms: brain.

Detailed explanation-3: -Well, they come from the Greek encephalon, the word for “brain", from and en-“in” and cephalon “head"; so “that which is in the head-the brain".

Detailed explanation-4: -Encephalon was originally coined as a descriptive name that explained the “situation” of the brain inside the skull (from Greek en = in and kefal-e‘ = head).