Definition of Pericranial

1. a. Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

Definition of Pericranial

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the pericranium. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pericranial

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Pericranial

1. Of or pertaining to the pericranium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pericranial

periconchal sulcus
pericones
pericontusional
pericopae
pericopal
pericope
pericopes
pericopic
pericorneal
pericoronal
pericoronal abscess
pericoronal flap
pericoronitis
pericorpuscular synapse
pericrania
pericranial (current term)
pericranitis
pericranium
pericraniums
periculous
pericyazine
pericycle
pericycles
pericyclic
pericyclic reaction
pericyclic reactions
pericystic
pericystitis
pericystium
pericytal

Literary usage of Pericranial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"It then ascends upon the forehead, and terminates in cutaneous and pericranial branches. The cutaneous branches, two in number, an inner and an outer, ..."

2. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1884)
"... extending to the face and neck; whilst in suppuration beneath the pericranial aponeurosis the mischief is limited by the attachment of that membrane. ..."

3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1896)
"Post-Influenzal pericranial Effusion.—Dr. Wynter exhibited before the Harveian ... pericranial effusion following influenza. The patient, a man aged thirty, ..."

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