Definition of "cranium" [cra•ni•um]

• The skull of a vertebrate. (noun)
• The portion of the skull enclosing the brain; the braincase. (noun)

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• "Would SOMEBODY extract this guy's cranium from the deep, dark, haunts of his rectum?"
• "The Hofmeyr cranium is consistent with the hypothesis that UP Eurasians descended from a population that emigrated from sub-Saharan Africa in the Late Pleistocene."
• "As her opponents have learned, infiltrating Sharapova's Fort Knox cranium is nearly impossible."