Difference between Encephalon and Brain

Encephalon

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; the brain.

Brain

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.An intelligent person.A person who provides the intelligence required for something.Intellect.By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strike (someone) on the head.To kill (a person) by smashing that person's skull.

Example sentence: A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.