Word Meanings - INTRACRANIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Within the cranium or skull. Sir W. Hamilton.

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• CRANIUM
  The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull. (more info) Gr.
• SKULLFISH
  A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• SKULLCAP
  Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised. (more info) 1. A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a
• WITHIN
  with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
• WITHINFORTH
  Within; inside; inwardly. Wyclif. labor for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon. Bp. Peacock.
• SKULL
  A school, company, or shoal. A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him. Warner. These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls. Holland.
• PERICRANIUM
  The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.
• OSTEOCRANIUM
  The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium.
• EPICRANIUM
  The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• NUMSKULL
  A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.
• SAPSKULL
  A saphead.
• BUCRANIUM
  A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
• CALAVERAS SKULL
  A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the
• THICKSKULL
  A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.
• NUMSKULLED
  Stupid; doltish.