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Skull

A school, company, or shoal.

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Bone 76% connected

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, bl…

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Brainpan 70% connected

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

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Cranium 70% connected

The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or bra…

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Jaw 70% connected

One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

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Malar 70% connected

Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.

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Orbit 70% connected

The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.

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Sphenoid 70% connected

Wedge-shaped; as, a sphenoid crystal.

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Vomer 70% connected

A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and ot…

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Zygomatic 70% connected

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the zygoma.

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Caput 70% connected

The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

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Head 70% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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