Scull: alternatives and connections

Partial or total absence of the skull.

Wanting a skull.

Characterized by a high skull.

Loftiness of skull.

Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidat…

A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its bod…

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

primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles

The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.

The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull b…

A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the sku…