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cranium
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cranium \Cra"ni*um\ (kr?"n?-?m), n.; pl. E. Craniums (-?mz), L. Crania (-?). [NL., fr. Gr. ????; akin to ka`ra head.] The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., craneum, from Medieval Latin cranium "skull," from Greek kranion "skull, upper part of the head," related to kara (poetic kras) "head," from PIE root *ker- (1) "horn, head" (see horn (n.)). Strictly, the bones which enclose the brain.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The skull of a vertebrate. 2 That part of the skull enclosing the brain, the braincase.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Cranium is a party game created by Whit Alexander and Richard Tait in 1998, after Richard spent a weekend playing games with another family and recognized the need for a game involving a variety of skills. He left his job at Microsoft, convincing his friend and co-worker Whit Alexander to join him in the creation of Cranium. Cranium, manufactured by Hasbro subsidiary Cranium, Inc., is billed as "The Game for Your Whole Brain". Unlike many other party games, Cranium includes a wide variety of activities. Giorgio Davanzo handles packaging and branding for the game, and the artwork is done by Gary Baseman, creator of the animated television series Teacher's Pet.
Cranium is a Swedish speed metal band formed in 1984. Cranium's music resembles German speed metal and thrash metal bands like Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction.
The cranium (plural crania) is a part of the skull.
Crania or cranium may also refer to:
Usage examples of "cranium".
Just before the technician switched off the light, Rohan managed to locate the white-haired cranium of the astrogator amid all the other heads.
On his other side, the vivacious Crania, now a lady to Queen Gruach, met with no better success as she fluttered her long eyelashes and smiled and tried to flirt with Fergus.
When Elen thought she could bear no more of noise and music and coarse jests, Gruach herself, accompanied by Fionna and Crania, led her away from the banquet hall.
She wondered if Crania had slipped out to meet Fergus, if the two of them were off in some quiet corner of the palace making love.
And what of sweet, foolish Crania, who had been singularly unchanged by her brief marriage to an aged thane?
He fled when he realized Bancho was dead, and he took Crania with him.
They took three-year-old Crania with them and tramped the nearby hillsides to find wild herbs or dig roots.
Little Crania ran to her father and threw her arms about his neck as Talcoran tossed her into the air.
Colin and little Crania, Fionna and her daughter Elen, Briga and Ava, and the aged Dougal clustered around Elen as she broke the seal and opened the parchment.
By the next day, seven-year-old Crania was sick, too, and the day after that Colin took to his bed.
The following night Crania coughed her life away, and it was Fionna who held a grieving Elen.
Queen Crania, solemn and silent, assumed her place beside him, her gaze quick with interest and I took heart that she at least did not scowl when she regarded me.
As adult human crania would have been awkwardly large, the god found it more convenient to use only those of infants and small children.
In addition, von Diicker observed many dozens of crania of Hipparion and antelope showing methodical removal of the upper jaw in order to extract the brain.
Perhaps in contrasting the two, Crania and Julia, he could find the elusive answer at last?