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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.
The zygomatic plate, formed by the anterior base of the zygomatic arch, is broad and a conspicuous feature of the cranium.
Using the same bicoronal incision, the neurosurgeon retracts the scalp to expose the cranium from the coronal suture to the lambdoidal suture.
Before he died he willed his body for medical research, and his cranium for craniological study.
In 1856 two quarrymen found an ancient cranium in the limestone-rich Neander Valley near Dusseldorf, Germany.
The reason why my cranium was not injured was because I was wearing an ancient, yellow climbing helmet.

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