cranium

1. The part of the skull that encloses the brain (synset 105548146)
   is a type of: bone, os - rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
   has:

   • asterion - the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture
   • stephanion - the craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatus
   • ethmoid, ethmoid bone - one of the eight bones of the cranium; a small bone filled with air spaces that forms part of the eye sockets and the nasal cavity
   • os temporale, temporal bone - a thick bone forming the side of the human cranium and encasing the inner ear
   • calvaria, skullcap - the dome of the skull
   • forehead, frontal bone, os frontale - the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits
   • parietal bone - either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium
   • occipital bone - a saucer-shaped membrane bone that forms the back of the skull
   • coronal suture, sutura coronalis - the suture between the parietal and frontal bones of the skull
   • frontal suture, sutura frontalis - the suture between two halves of the frontal bone (usually obliterated by the age of 6)
   • lamboid suture, sutura lamboidea - the suture between the occipital and parietal bones
   • occipitomastoid suture - the suture between the occipital and the temporal bones; a continuation of the lamboid suture
   • parietomastoid suture - the suture between the parietal and the temporal bones
   • interparietal suture, sagittal suture, sutura sagittalis - the suture uniting the two parietal bones
   • fontanel, fontanelle, soft spot - any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus
   • foramen magnum - the large opening at the base of the cranium through which the spinal cord passes
   is a part of: skull - the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates
   same as: braincase, brainpan

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