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Definition of skull

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Skull (n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix..

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Atlas :: Atlas (n.) The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name..

Craniology :: Craniology (n.) The department of science (as of ethnology or archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls..

Opisthomi :: Opisthomi (n. pl.) An order of eellike fishes having the scapular arch attached to the vertebrae, but not connected with the skull..

Numskulled :: Numskulled (a.) Stupid; doltish.

Acranial :: Acranial (a.) Wanting a skull.

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

Mazard :: Mazard (n.) The jaw; the head or skull.

Corona :: Corona (n.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown..

Dunderhead :: Dunderhead (n.) A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.

Lambda :: Lambda (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.

Parasphenoid :: Parasphenoid (a.) Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals.

Maxilloturbinal :: Maxilloturbinal (a.) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.

Brachycephalous :: Brachycephalous (a.) Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

Tentorium :: Tentorium (n.) A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

Death's-head :: Death's-head (n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

Skull :: Skull (n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.

Acrocephaly :: Acrocephaly (n.) Loftiness of skull.

Paxwax :: Paxwax (n.) The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax..

Epipterygoid :: Epipterygoid (n.) An epipterygoid bone or cartilage; the columella in the skulls of many lizards.

Thick-headed :: Thick-headed (a.) Having a thick skull; stupid.