Word Meanings - SUPRACRANIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated above, or in the roof of, the cranium.

Related words: (words related to SUPRACRANIAL)

• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• 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.
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• SITUATION
  1. Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation. 2. Position, as regards the conditions and circumstances of the case. A situation of the greatest
• ABOVE-CITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• ABOVE
  1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in
• 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.
• BUCRANIUM
  A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.