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Scientific examination of the cranium.

Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic. -- Dol`i*cho*ceph"al, a. & n.

Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.

The contents of the cranium; the brain.

Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.

nat.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.

ether, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.

An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.

The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.

The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium. Frontal hammer or helve, a forge hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a "tongue" immediately in front of the hammer head. Raymond.

An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously.

Within the cranium or skull. Sir W. Hamilton.

Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.

Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.

segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become consolidated in the adult. -- Occipital point (Anat.), the point of the occiput in the mesial plane farthest from the ophryon.…

onsidered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. Chaucer.

to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.

The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium. [Obs.]