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Fossa :: Fossa (n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds..

Transpalatine :: Transpalatine (a.) Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; -- said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.

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

Opisthion :: Opisthion (n.) The middle of the posterior, or dorsal, margin of the great foramen of the skull..

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

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

Skull :: 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..

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

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.

Amphioxus :: Amphioxus (n.) A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebrae, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc..

Skullcap :: Skullcap (n.) The Lophiomys.

Ceratosaurus :: Ceratosaurus (n.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix..

Ethmovomerine :: Ethmovomerine (n.) Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull.

Parieto- :: Parieto- () A combining form used to indicate connection with, or relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid suture..

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

Acrocephalic :: Acrocephalic (a.) Characterized by a high skull.

Diploe :: Diploe (n.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull..

Impaction :: Impaction (n.) The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip..

Bulla :: Bulla (n.) The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla..

Prochordal :: Prochordal (a.) Situated in front of the notochord; -- applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull.

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