Synonyms

Cerebral hemispheres ( Tiedemann, 1816 ) : Synonym for endbrain (Kuhlenbeck, 1927). It was used in this way by Teidemann (see 1826 translation, p. 15), and more recently by for example Strong & Elwyn (1943, pp. 13-16), Carpenter (1976, p. 21), Williams & Warwick (1980, p. 864), and Nauta & Feirtag (1986, p. 43), but has also been defined in many other ways.

Cerebrum ( Obersteiner & Hill, 1900 ) : Synonym for endbrain (Kuhlenbeck, 1927). It was used in this way by for example Obersteiner & Hill (1900, pp. xv, 47), Crosby et al. (1962, p. 356), Williams & Warwick (1980, p. 864), Nauta & Feirtag (1986, p. 43), and Nieuwenhuys et al. 2008, p. 5, Fig. 1.2), but has also been defined in many other ways. Curiously, in English, the Greek (encephalon) and Latin (cerebrum) forms of "brain" are not synonymous (see Oxford English Dictionary, 1989). This goes back to Aristotle, who distinguished a large brain (cerebrum) and small brain (cerebellum, the diminutive of cerebrum); see Swanson (2000) and His (1895, p. 162).

Endbrain ( EB ; Kuhlenbeck, 1927 ) : The rostral (Schulze, 1893) and dorsal (Barclay, 1803) topographic division of the forebrain (Goette, 1873); the caudal (Cleland, 1879) and ventral (Schulze, 1893) division is the interbrain (Baer, 1837). This basic division of the macrodissected adult human brain (Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, c1700 BC) has been recognized at least since Mondino (1316), see translation by Singer (1925, vol. 1, p. 92), and was named thus by Kuhlenbeck (1927, chs. 3, 10). This English form of telencephalon (Kuhlenbeck, 1927) has been used routinely, for example by Herrick (1915, p. 121), Clark (1951, p. 854), Williams & Warwick (1980, p. 982), and Nauta & Fiertag (1986, p. 39). Synonyms include secondary forebrain (Sharpey et al., 1867), telencephalon (Kuhlenbeck, 1927), cerebrum (Obersteiner & Hill, 1900), cerebral hemispheres (Tiedemann, 1826).

Forebrain ( Baer, 1837 ) : Synonym for adult vertebrate endbrain (Kuhlenbeck, 1927); in the original German, "Vorderhirn"; p. 107. For later use see Ariëns Kappers (1929, Figs. 44, 45), Papez (1929, Ch. 40).