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Supracretaceous :: Supracranial (a.) Situated above, or in the roof of, the cranium..

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

Craniums :: Craniums (pl. ) of Craniu.

Subcrustaceous :: Subcranial (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial..

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..

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..

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

Brain :: Brain (n.) The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three seg

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

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

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

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

Pericranium :: Pericranium (n.) The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

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

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

Pericranial :: Pericranial (a.) Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

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

Cranium :: Cranium (n.) The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull..

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..

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

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