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What is a cranium?

What is a cranium? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The skull of a vertebrate.
  2. That part of the skull enclosing the brain, the braincase.
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Sutural bones are usually small, irregularly shaped ossicles, often found in the sutures of the cranium, especially in the parietal bones.
Using the same bicoronal incision, the neurosurgeon retracts the scalp to expose the cranium from the coronal suture to the lambdoidal suture.
The zygomatic plate, formed by the anterior base of the zygomatic arch, is broad and a conspicuous feature of the cranium.
The moveable front part of the cranium provides a larger gape when the mouth is opened, and this may be advantageous in feeding.
In plain view too, I ran out with a crowbar hammered it upside his cranium, he fell over dead, but no blood, only dust, he's a basehead.
In 1856 two quarrymen found an ancient cranium in the limestone-rich Neander Valley near Dusseldorf, Germany.

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