Encephalonize vs Encephalization - What's the difference?

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Encephalization is a related term of encephalonize.

Encephalonize is often a misspelling of encephalization.

Encephalonize has no English definition.

As a noun encephalization is

the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.

encephalonize

Not English

Encephalonize has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'encephalonize':

encapsulation, encapsidation, encephalocele, encephalotome

encephalization

English

Alternative forms

*encephalisation

Noun

(en noun)

(biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.

*{{quote-journal, 1998, date=June 12, Dean Falk, PALEONTOLOGY: Hominid Brain Evolution: Looks Can Be Deceiving, Science citation

, passage=The answer to this will determine the encephalization quotients of the two types of early hominids ( 8 ), which is an important indicator of relative "braininess," an issue that is now up for grabs. }}

*{{quote-journal, 1999, date=January 15, Matt Sponheimer & Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Isotopic Evidence for the Diet of an Early Hominid, Australopithecus africanus, Science citation

, passage=It is believed that the encephalization of early Homo was made possible by the consumption of energy- and nutrient-rich animal foods to "pay" for its metabolically expensive brain (39 , 40 ). }}

*{{quote-journal, 2001, date=November 2, Jerome M. Siegel, The REM Sleep-Memory Consolidation Hypothesis, Science citation

, passage=The time spent in REM sleep is not correlated with learning ability across humans, nor is there a positive relation between REM sleep time or intensity and encephalization across species. }}

Derived terms

*encephalization quotient