Fornix: alternatives and connections

The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.

A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as…

To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.

To arch over; to vault.

An arch or vault.

Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.

the cavity enclosed by the cranium

One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]

The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chap…

The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.