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nounthe bony skeleton of the head of vertebratespart of:
Definition that contains skull
- brain that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
- brain kill by smashing someone's skull
- jaw the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth
- jaw the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
- orbit the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball
- temporal of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)
- blackjack a flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship
- lambda the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and lamboid sutures of the skull
- beany a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen
- cranium the part of the skull that encloses the brain