cranium

cra·ni·um

C0724900 (krā′nē-əm)n. pl. cra·ni·ums or cra·ni·a (-nē-ə) 1. The skull.2. The portion of the skull enclosing the brain; the braincase.

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[Middle English craneum, from Medieval Latin crānium, from Greek krānion; see ker- in Indo-European roots.]

cranium

(ˈkreɪnɪəm) n, pl -niums or -nia (-nɪə) 1. (Anatomy) the skull of a vertebrate2. (Anatomy) the part of the skull that encloses the brain. Nontechnical name: brainpan [C16: from Medieval Latin crānium skull, from Greek kranion]

cra•ni•um

(ˈkreɪ ni əm)

n., pl. -ni•ums, -ni•a (-ni ə) 1. the skull of a vertebrate. 2. Also called braincase. the part of the skull that encloses the brain. [1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin crānium < Greek krāníon skull]

cra·ni·um

(krā′nē-əm) The skull of a vertebrate animal. It encloses and protects the brain.

cranium

The part of the skull that contains the brain.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

cranium - the part of the skull that encloses the brainbraincase, brainpanasterion - the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suturestephanion - the craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatusbone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebratesethmoid, ethmoid bone - 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 cavityos temporale, temporal bone - a thick bone forming the side of the human cranium and encasing the inner earskull - the bony skeleton of the head of vertebratescalvaria, skullcap - the dome of the skullfrontal bone, os frontale, forehead - the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbitsparietal bone - either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the craniumoccipital bone - a saucer-shaped membrane bone that forms the back of the skullcoronal suture, sutura coronalis - the suture between the parietal and frontal bones of the skullfrontal suture, sutura frontalis - the suture between two halves of the frontal bone (usually obliterated by the age of 6)lamboid suture, sutura lamboidea - the suture between the occipital and parietal bonesoccipitomastoid suture - the suture between the occipital and the temporal bones; a continuation of the lamboid sutureparietomastoid suture - the suture between the parietal and the temporal bonesinterparietal suture, sagittal suture, sutura sagittalis - the suture uniting the two parietal bonesfontanel, fontanelle, soft spot - any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetusforamen magnum - the large opening at the base of the cranium through which the spinal cord passes

Translations

Schädelκρανίοcráneocrânecranio