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he is not likely to infer that either of the latter is meant by 

 medipedimculus. In fact, this term, as coined and defined by 

 me,^ is now an idionym, applicable to but a single part of the 

 brain. 



§199. In order to be absolutely explicit and independent 

 of the context the following terms from the German list should 

 be accompanied by the words here bracketed after them : — 

 Clivtis [ occipitalis ] ; Clivus [ sphenoidalis ] ; Pars cervicalis 

 [ medullae spinalis ] ; Sulcus lateralis anterior [ niedidlae oblon- 

 gatae ] ; Sulcus lindtans ventricidoruni [ encepJiali ] ; Pars centralis 

 [ ventrieuli lateralis ] ; VerJriculus terminalis [ medullae spinalis ]; 

 Lamifia terminalis \_encephali~\. The identity of the adjective in 

 the last two terms would lead the beginner to associate them 

 topographically, and he certainly would never infer that they 

 designate parts at opposite poles of the cerebro-spinal axis.^ 



§200. From the standpoint of Prof. His the foregoing 

 must be regarded as serious blemishes upon the German list. 

 From my point of view, although I might object to certain of 

 the names as such, it would not be on account of their lack of 

 explicitness. As has been said above (§26) in many instances 

 explicitness is to be gained from the context. But with really 

 the larger number, I am confident that well selected, brief, and 

 fairly suggestive designatory names can and will be learned and 

 remembered without any difficulty, especially if the study of the 

 brain be begun at an early age ; see Part VIII. 



§201. Coelia. — This word, in place of cavitas encephali s. 

 ventriculus encepJiali, is one of the three cited by Prof His (§I70| 

 a) as examples of my many terms that are objectionable be- 



^ In this connection two remariis are naturally suggested : ( I ) Medipedun- 

 cuius is an adjectival locative, it and its correlatives, praepedzmcidus and post- 

 pedunculus, constituting one of the most perfect groups of that kind ; §§29, 189, 

 (2) The obtrusively Latin termination of these words, as well as the length of 

 the words themselves, forced upon me in 1884 (§62) the consideration of the 

 whole subject of paronymy. 



^ In the absence of adequate context or prior definition, would any reader 

 Imagine that spongiocyte and spongioplasm refer to elements of the nervous 

 tissue ? 



