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Definitions of cranium
  1. noun
    the part of the skull that encloses the brain

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  • forehead the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits
  • cranial of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain
  • vertebrate animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
  • parietal of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones in the cranium
  • ethmoid one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity
  • fontanelle any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus
  • broca French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)
  • fontanel any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus
  • maxilla the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
  • maxillary the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium
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