See Also: derencephalia(medicine)

COUCHANT (law) and derencephalia (medicine)


COUCHANT (law)


COUCHANT. Lying down. Animals are said to have been levant and couchant, when they have been upon another person' s land, damage feasant, one night at when they have been upon another person' s land, damage feasant, one night at least. 3 Bl. Com. 9. least. 3 Bl. Com. 9.

derencephalia (medicine)


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derencephaly
Cervical rachischisis and anencephaly, a malformation involving an open cranial vault with a rudimentary brain usually crowded back toward bifid cervical vertebrae.

Synonym: derencephalia.

Origin: G. Dere, neck, + enkephalos, brain