cranium
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The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.
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You want to know about the last tomb? [Conway] asked Pierce. "I'll tell you." He tapped the white cranium. "That's the last tomb, man. Right there, and you're buried there all your life. You can't escape it.
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.
Also proposed as Homo sapiens heidelbergensis or Homo sapiens paleohungaricus. citation H. rhodesiensis, and the Gawis cranium * H. rhodesiensis, estimated to be 300,000–125,000 years old.
Herrlee Creel "The Origin of the Deity T'ien" (1970:493-506) The Zhou people attributed Heaven with anthropomorphic attributes, evidenced in the etymology of the Chinese character for Heaven or sky, which originally depicted a person with a large cranium.
In adults, it occurs mainly in the pelvis, cranium, vertebrae, and sternum. citation Extramedullary In some cases, the liver, thymus, and spleen may resume their haematopoietic function, if necessary.
ISBN 094473524X (pp. 104, 106) Unlike most other illustrators, O'Mealia drew Fu Manchu as a clean-shaven man with an abnormally large cranium.