Definition of "cranial cavity" []

• The cavity enclosed by the cranium (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Something resembling Antony lay on a long table, its body buried in natron salts, the face still visible because, had they known it, Antony’s brain had to be removed in small gobbets through his nostrils and the cranial cavity filled with myrrh, cassia, and crumbled sticks of incense."