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Definition of Skull

1. Noun. The bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates.

Definition of Skull

1. n. A school, company, or shoal.

2. n. The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.

Definition of Skull

1. Noun. (anatomy) The main bone of the head; the cranium. ¹

2. Noun. A symbol for death; death's-head ¹

3. Verb. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Skull

1. to hit on the head [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Skull

1. A school, company, or shoal. "A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him." "These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls." (Holland) See: School a multitude. 1. The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. In many fishes the skull is almost wholly cartilaginous but in the higher vertebrates it is more or less completely ossified, several bones are developed in the face, and the cranium is made up, wholly or partially, of bony plates arranged in three segments, the frontal, parietal, and occipital, and usually closely united in the adult. 2. The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind. "Skulls that can not teach, and will not learn." (Cowper) 3. A covering for the head; a skullcap. "Let me put on my skull first." (Beau & Fl) 4. A sort of oar. See Scull. Skull and crossbones, a symbol of death. See Crossbones. Origin: OE. Skulle, sculle, scolle; akin to Scot. Skull, skoll, a bowl, Sw. Skalle skull, skal a shell, and E. Scale; cf. G. Hirnschale, Dan. Hierneskal. Cf. Scale of a balance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Skull

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)
"THE skull AS A WHOLE. The skull, formed by the union of the several cranial and ... The Vertex of the skull. The Superior Region, or Vertex, presents two ..."

2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"The most nearly complete skull of the scries is above the average in size, and is also evidently the skull of a very old individual. This skull affords the ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"The conditions of sound conduction in the skull are next studied—first on a macerated and then on a fresh skull. The tuning-fork handle is in these ..."

4. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1892)
"A series may be formed commencing with the black-boned Silk fowl, which has a very small crest with the skull beneath penetrated only by a few minute ..."

5. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"The following description is taken almost entirely from the two skulls recently discovered, as the type skull shows very little that can be depended upon, ..."

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