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The part of the skull that encloses the brain
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braincase
Word definitions for braincase in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the part of the skull that encloses the brain [syn: cranium , brainpan ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
braincase \brain"case\ n. the part of the skull that encloses the brain. Syn: cranium, brainpan.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The part of the skull that contains the brain; the cranium.
Usage examples of braincase.
Yet he had nerved himself to go to work on the partially shattered braincase that protruded from the passage wall almost like a mounted trophy head.
Inside his braincase sensations were being reviewed, evaluated, before any official reaction was given.
His braincase was open, glowed strangely in the night, but no one saw it.
Superimposed on this frightening image was the face of that damned girl, scanning the back of his braincase with those obsidian eyes.
It was a tremendously armored braincase whose only purpose was the protection and support of the berserker computer gear that it contained.
Firelight shone on the dull white bone, revealing the jagged crown where the braincase had been sawed away.
Torin kicked again with her free leg and took out the braincase on the next spin.
A guy named Roxton made casts of rex braincases, and concluded that tyrannosaurs had the brain of a frog.
It might be very illuminating to examine fossil endocasts of their braincases.
The antennae paled, withdrawing into the pale braincase to end the interview.
Modem men and women have braincases twice the volume of Homo habilis'.
Their limp white bodies with pink tails and split-open braincases lay in a heap on newspaper on the floor underneath a banana skin.
Rocs were bred from condors ages ago on Old Earth -- but their broad twenty-meter wings, big braincases, and tall aquiline beaks gave them the look of eagles.
He has to estimate brain size by making plaster casts of the insides of braincases.
Standing in the centre of the room, the three newcomers examined the humans with smeared eyes, which swivelled independently on the flat and otherwise featureless braincases.