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Intracranial :: Intracranial (a.) Within the cranium or skull.

Autostylic :: Autostylic (a.) Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia..

Festoon :: Festoon (n.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium..

Epicranium :: Epicranium (n.) The dorsal wall of the head of insects.

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..

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

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

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

Crania :: Crania (n.) A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.

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

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

Frontal :: Frontal (n.) The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium..

Epicranial :: Epicranial (a.) Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.

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

Frons :: Frons (n.) The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.

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

Craniums :: Craniums (pl. ) of Craniu.

Osteocranium :: Osteocranium (n.) The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium..

Parietal :: Parietal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals..

Sindon :: Sindon (n.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.

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