cranium
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- 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
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