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Parietes :: Parietes (n. pl.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium..

Cranial :: Cranial (a.) Of or pertaining to the cranium.

Basi- :: Basi- () A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc..

Calvaria :: Calvaria (n.) The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion..

Emissary :: Emissary (a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.

Dolichocephalous :: Dolichocephalous (a.) Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic..

Craniofacial :: Craniofacial (a.) Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle..

Separatory :: Separatory (n.) A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.

Cranioscopy :: Cranioscopy (n.) Scientific examination of the cranium.

Brainpan :: Brainpan (n.) The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

Hydrocephalus :: Hydrocephalus (n.) An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously..

Table :: Table (n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium..

Chondro- :: Chondro- () A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos..

Biparietal :: Biparietal (a.) Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other..

Amphistylic :: Amphistylic (a.) Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull..

Mesocephalic :: Mesocephalic (a.) Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.

Mesaticephalic :: Mesaticephalic (a.) Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.

Basisphenoidal :: Basisphenoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult..

Encephalon :: Encephalon (n.) The contents of the cranium; the brain.

Bucranium :: Bucranium (n.) A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc..

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