cranium
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++cra·ni·um /ˈkreɪniəm/ noun (plural craniums or crania /-niə/) [countable] technical HBHthe part of your head that is made of bone and covers your brain 颅（骨），头盖骨 —cranial adjective
Examples from the Corpus
cranium• The red light of fires reflected from the hairless cranium.• Information exchanged and fed into his cranium.• If it lives long enough, its tusks will eventually reach its cranium and grow into it.• Its long cranium jutting forward, fangs dripping gluey saliva.• The bullets fired into the victim's cranium were still lodged there.• Then he supped hastily from the bone cup of the cranium.• Crossing the hind part of the cranium there is in some insects an occipital suture.Origin cranium (1400-1500) Medieval Latin Greek kranioncra·ni·um nounChineseSyllable
that your of Corpus made part of is head the
cranium
cra‧ni‧um /ˈkreɪniəm/
noun (plural craniums or crania /-niə/) [countable] technical
—cranial adjective
cra‧ni‧um /ˈkreɪniəm/
noun (plural craniums or crania /-niə/) [countable] technical Date: 1400-1500
Language: Medieval Latin
Origin: Greek kranion
the part of your head that is made of bone and covers your brainLanguage: Medieval Latin
Origin: Greek kranion
—cranial adjective
