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Definition of Cranium
1. Noun. The part of the skull that encloses the brain.
Terms within: Asterion, Stephanion, Ethmoid, Ethmoid Bone, Os Temporale, Temporal Bone, Calvaria, Skullcap, Forehead, Frontal Bone, Os Frontale, Parietal Bone, Occipital Bone, Coronal Suture, Sutura Coronalis, Frontal Suture, Sutura Frontalis, Lamboid Suture, Sutura Lamboidea, Occipitomastoid Suture, Parietomastoid Suture, Interparietal Suture, Sagittal Suture, Sutura Sagittalis, Fontanel, Fontanelle, Soft Spot, Foramen Magnum
Generic synonyms: Bone, Os
Group relationships: Skull
Derivative terms: Cranial
Definition of Cranium
1. n. The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.
Definition of Cranium
1. Noun. The skull of a vertebrate. ¹
2. Noun. That part of the skull enclosing the brain, the braincase. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cranium
1. the skull [n -NIUMS or -NIA]
Medical Definition of Cranium
1. The bones of the skull which contain the brain, the brain case (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cranium
Literary usage of Cranium
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 (1867)
"cranium, 8 bones. Face, 14 bones. Occipital. Two Parietal. Frontal. ... 22) is
situated at the back part and base of the cranium, is trapezoid in form, ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"On certain Markings on the Frontal Part of the Human cranium, and their Significance,
By A. FRANCIS DIXON. The presence of these grooves indicates a want in ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Vl'SCLES AND FASCI'JE OF THE cranium AND FACE. fascia, and consists of fibro-areolar
tissue, ... The muscles of the cranium and Face consist of ten groups, ..."
4. Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori (1913)
"THE VOLUME OF THE cranium The volume of the cranium owes ... as we have already
seen, to the fact that the cranium represents the envelope of the brain, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1851)
"When the brain is taken out of the cranium, it may, like a sponge, be compressed,
by squeezing fluid out of the blood-vessels; but during life, surrounded, ..."
6. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1865)
"By multiplying the three diameters of the cranium of Schiller ... Excepting one
single cranium, the cubic index of which amounts to ..."
7. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1869)
"5709: "A plaster cast of the cranium of an ancient aboriginal of Scandinavia ...
The cranium is long in proportion to its breadth, and resembles in size and ..."
8. Anatomy, descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1867)
"cranium, 8 bones. Face, 14 bones. Occipital. Two Parietal. Frontal. ... 22) is
situated at the back part and base of the cranium, is trapezoid in form, ..."
9. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"On certain Markings on the Frontal Part of the Human cranium, and their Significance,
By A. FRANCIS DIXON. The presence of these grooves indicates a want in ..."
10. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Vl'SCLES AND FASCI'JE OF THE cranium AND FACE. fascia, and consists of fibro-areolar
tissue, ... The muscles of the cranium and Face consist of ten groups, ..."
11. Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori (1913)
"THE VOLUME OF THE cranium The volume of the cranium owes ... as we have already
seen, to the fact that the cranium represents the envelope of the brain, ..."
12. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1851)
"When the brain is taken out of the cranium, it may, like a sponge, be compressed,
by squeezing fluid out of the blood-vessels; but during life, surrounded, ..."
13. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1865)
"By multiplying the three diameters of the cranium of Schiller ... Excepting one
single cranium, the cubic index of which amounts to ..."
14. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1869)
"5709: "A plaster cast of the cranium of an ancient aboriginal of Scandinavia ...
The cranium is long in proportion to its breadth, and resembles in size and ..."
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