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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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Coronal :: Coronal (a.) Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.

Sapskull :: Sapskull (n.) A saphead.

Scaphocephaly :: Scaphocephaly (n.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped..

Crossbones :: Crossbones (n. pl.) A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death..

Craniognomy :: Craniognomy (n.) The science of the form and characteristics of the skull.

Craniometer :: Craniometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

Postfrontal :: Postfrontal (a.) Situated behind the frontal bone or the frontal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone back of and below the frontal in many animals.

Skull :: Skull (n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.

Otocrane :: Otocrane (n.) The cavity in the skull in which the parts of the internal ear are lodged.

Hyostylic :: Hyostylic (a.) Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull..

Sconce :: Sconce (p. p.) Fig.: The head; the skull; also, brains; sense; discretion..

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

Fontanel :: Fontanel (n.) One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.

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.

Pteron :: Pteron (n.) The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other..

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

Leptorhine :: Leptorhine (a.) Having the nose narrow; -- said esp. of the skull. Opposed to platyrhine.

Thickskull :: Thickskull (n.) A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull..

Exoccipital :: Exoccipital (a.) Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull.

Epipteric :: Epipteric (a.) Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid.