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.

One who sustains a great burden.

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…