单词 | cranium |
释义 | craniumn. 1. Anatomy, etc. a. strictly. Those bones which enclose the brain (as distinguished from those of the face and jaws); the brain-case, brain-pan, skull. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > top of skull crownc1275 scalpa1300 calvaria1398 crany1525 crane?1541 cranium1543 brain-cap1812 skull-cap1855 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. i. f. 3v/1 The bone named Cranium, or the fyrst table of the bones of the heade. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 440 The skull or cranium is all that bone which compasseth the braine and after-brain like a helmet. 1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xxiv. 292 In a natural state..the dura mater can be perfectly separated from the cranium. 1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 15 The skull is divisible into two parts,—the cranium and the face. b. more widely. The bones of the whole head collectively; the skull. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > [noun] head boneeOE head paneOE panOE brainpanOE skull?c1225 harn-pan1340 brain skulla1400 calvairc1420 pot of the head?a1425 pan-bone1545 cranew1555 pannicle1590 pericranium1590 cranion1611 poll1721 braincase1726 brain-box1789 pericrane1804 cobbra1832 cranium1842 neurocranium1907 1842 J. C. Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 119 If we examine crania which have prominent upper jaws. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 353 The Labyrinthodon is known mainly by footprints and by crania. 2. Used humorously for ‘head’. (Cf. skull n.1) ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] nolleOE headOE topa1225 copc1264 scalpa1300 chiefc1330 crownc1330 jowla1400 poll?a1400 testea1400 ball in the hoodc1400 palleta1425 noddle?1507 costard?1515 nab?1536 neck1560 coxcomb1567 sconce1567 now1568 headpiece1579 mazer1581 mazardc1595 cockcomb1602 costrel1604 cranion1611 pasha1616 noddle pate1622 block1635 cranium1647 sallet1652 poundrel1664 nob1699 crany?1730 knowledge box1755 noodle1762 noggin1769 napper1785 garret1796 pimple1811 knowledge-casket1822 coco1828 cobbra1832 coconut1834 top-piece1838 nut1841 barnet1857 twopenny1859 chump1864 topknot1869 conk1870 masthead1884 filbert1886 bonce1889 crumpet1891 dome1891 roof1897 beanc1905 belfry1907 hat rack1907 melon1907 box1908 lemon1923 loaf1925 pound1933 sconec1945 nana1966 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 79 Farewell simple world, If thou'lt thy Cranium mend, There is my Last and All. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §144 308 This Fancy..came into the Author's Cranium. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 54 Cracking of craniums was the rage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1543 |
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