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‖ pericranium|pɛrɪˈkreɪnɪəm| Also 6–7 in Gr. form pericranion. [med. or mod.L., a. Gr. περικράνιον, neuter of περικράνιος round the skull, = ἡ περικράνιος χιτών the membrane under the skin of the skull, f. περί around + κρανίον skull.] 1. Anat. The membrane enveloping the skull, being the external periosteum of the cranial bones.
[1525tr. Brunswick's Surg. A iv b/2 That panicle that is named of Galienus pericraneum dothe couere all the hole panne, and is somwhat lyke to senewes.] 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. D iv, Of what substaunce is the great pannacle that is called Pericranium, and wherof bredeth it? 1741Monro Anat. Bones (ed. 3) 66 Periosteum (common to all the Bones, but in the Scull distinguished by the Name of Pericranium). 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 198 It is probable that the blood is effused beneath the pericranium. 2. loosely (usually in affected or humorous use): a. The skull, cranium; b. The brain, esp. as the seat of mind or thought. Now rare.
1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. i. iii, Cleave his pericranion with thy sword. 1621Fletcher Isl. Princess ii. v, The clerk and he are cooling their pericraniums. 1630Dekker 2nd Pt. Honest Wh. iv. i, We whose pericranions are the very limbecks and stillatories of good wit. 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 10 The Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium. 1816T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall i, Arguing..various knotty points which had puzzled his pericranium. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. II. iv. 52 A possessor of oaks thick as his pericranium. Hence periˈcranial a., of or pertaining to the pericranium (whence periˈcranially adv., in quot. humorously = so as to cover the skull); pericranics |-ˈkrænɪks|, humorous, ‘brains’, wits; ‖ pericraˈnitis, inflammation of the pericranium.
1890Cent. Dict., Pericranial. 1841Fraser's Mag. XXIII. 220 My wife had taken..the book, and..the wig, and, placing the latter pericranially where the former had been, she gave the volume to the countess. 1800Lamb Let. to Manning 22 Aug., To speculate strangely on the state of the good man's pericranicks. 1852J. Miller Pract. Surg. iv. (ed. 2) 58 Idiopathic pericranitis is more frequently chronic than acute. |