braincase
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1. the part of the skull that encloses the brain (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | bone, os, |
| definition | : | rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | asterion, |
| definition | : | the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | stephanion, |
| definition | : | the craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatus (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | ethmoid, ethmoid bone, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | os temporale, temporal bone, |
| definition | : | a thick bone forming the side of the human cranium and encasing the inner ear (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | forehead, frontal bone, os frontale, |
| definition | : | the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | parietal bone, |
| definition | : | either of two skull bones between the frontal and occipital bones and forming the top and sides of the cranium (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | occipital bone, |
| definition | : | a saucer-shaped membrane bone that forms the back of the skull (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | frontal suture, sutura frontalis, |
| definition | : | the suture between two halves of the frontal bone (usually obliterated by the age of 6) (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | occipitomastoid suture, |
| definition | : | the suture between the occipital and the temporal bones; a continuation of the lamboid suture (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | parietomastoid suture, |
| definition | : | the suture between the parietal and the temporal bones (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | fontanel, fontanelle, soft spot, |
| definition | : | any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus (noun.body) |
| part holonym | : | foramen magnum, |
| definition | : | the large opening at the base of the cranium through which the spinal cord passes (noun.body) |
| part meronym | : | skull, |
| definition | : | the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates (noun.body) |
| derivation | : | cranial, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | cranial, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain (adj.pert) |
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