Definition of cranium
plural craniums
or crania
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\ˈkrā-nē-ə\
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Examples of cranium in a Sentence
the cranium of a Neanderthal is striking for its brow ridges
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In the popular conception, a concussion occurs when the cranium comes to a sudden stop and the brain crashes into it, like a car driver flying into the dashboard.
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Pappu and her team note in their paper that only one archaic human fossil, the Narmada cranium, has ever been discovered in India.
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Rosen was apparently unaware that marching on someone’s cranium is a less-than-effective frisking technique.
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Last week, the Flores family learned that the DNA matched a cranium found in Arizona.
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Not content merely to hang Captain Jack, an army surgeon decapitated the chief after lowering him from gallows and mailed his head to augment the Army Medical Museum’s collection of Indian cranium.
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After a corner, Sam Kunkemoeller retrieved the ball and centered a shot that found the cranium of Brevin Andreadis to tie the game 2-2.
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Its tiny corpse was covered in ash from a nearby volcano, helping to perfectly preserve its fragile cranium.
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Its tiny corpse was covered in ash from a nearby volcano, helping to perfectly preserve its fragile cranium.
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Origin and Etymology of cranium
Medieval Latin, from Greek kranion; akin to Greek kara head — more at cerebral
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First Known Use: 15th century
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