cranial
pronunciation
How to pronounce cranial in British English:
UK [ˈkreɪniəl]
How to pronounce cranial in American English:
US [ˈkreɪniəl]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain
Word Origin
- cranial (adj.)
- 1779, from Modern Latin cranium, from Greek kranion "skull" (see cranium) + -al (1).
Example
- 1. Combined resection of anterior cranial fossa and maxilla .
- 2. Blink reflex in diabetes with cranial nerve subclinical lesion .
- 3. Nursing after excision of giant meningeoma in posterior cranial fossa .
- 4. Results only 1 case of cholesteatoma in cerebellopontine and suprasellar cistern was detected with cranial ct scans among 13 patients .
- 5. Across the centuries , eugenicists and practitioners of other junk sciences argued that cranial volume could reveal important things about the intelligence or other traits of one race compared with another .