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单词 cranium
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cranium

(kreɪniəm)
Word forms: plural craniums, plural crania (kreɪniə)
countable noun
Your cranium is the round part of your skull that contains your brain.
[technical]

cranium in British English

(ˈkreɪnɪəm)
nounWord forms: plural -niums or -nia (-nɪə)
1. 
the skull of a vertebrate
2. 
the part of the skull that encloses the brain
Nontechnical name: brainpan
Word origin
C16: from Medieval Latin crānium skull, from Greek kranion

cranium in American English

(ˈkreɪniəm)
nounWord forms: plural ˈcraniums or ˈcrania (ˈkreɪniə)
1. 
the skull
2. 
the bones forming the enclosure of the brain; brainpan
3. 
the skull, excluding the lower jaw
Word origin
ML < Gr kranion < IE base *ker- > horn, L cerebrum, Ger hirn, brain

Examples of 'cranium' in a sentence
cranium

It had been crushed and most of the contents of the cranium were missing.
Wood, Ted FOOLS GOLD (2001)
She was called back into her cranium, the door of her skull slamming behind her with a crack.
Clive Barker THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW (2001)
The noise, loud and continuous, careened around my cranium.
Robert Wilson A DARKENING STAIN (2001)
In fact, Selim's injury consisted of nothing more than a rising lump on his cranium.
Elizabeth Peters LION IN THE VALLEY (2001)

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