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A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.

Of or pertaining to the cranium.

Partial or total absence of the skull.

Wanting a skull.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.

A pain that affects only one side of the head.

Within the cranium or skull. Sir W. Hamilton.

Of or pertaining to the otocrane.

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial.

Situated above, or in the roof of, the cranium.

es, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.

on. Gasserian ganglion (Anat.), a large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve.

Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.

er the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue. -- n.

ncludes all the hindbrain except the cerebellum and pons, and from it a large part of the cranial nerves arise. It controls very largely respiration, circulation, swallowing, and other functions, and is the most vital part of the brain; -- called also bulb of the spinal cord. See Brain.