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单词 cranium
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craniumn.

/ˈkreɪnɪəm/
Forms: Plural crania /ˈkreɪnɪə/.
Etymology: medieval Latin, < Greek κρᾱνίον skull.
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.
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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.
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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)
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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).
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