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calvarium

n. (context anatomy English) The upper, domelike portion of the skull (without the lower jaw)

Usage examples of "calvarium".

In doing so, she brushed against the calvarium -- the top of the skull -- which was lying upside down on the table, with the pool of blood in it.

His scalp fell down over his face inside out, like a slippery red blanket, the dome of his calvarium ivory-colored and red and wet, his hair draped in a fringe down over his mouth.

The skull had been sawn open during autopsy, and I carefully lifted the dripping calvarium, and the bones of the face with its calcined teeth, from tepid, greasy water.