cranial

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Ideally you want to put the head support in the cranial area, right there.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to the skull or cranium.

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  • Ideally you want to put the head support in the cranial area, right there. —  Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit down
  • Also what's hot -- cranial transducers I must have looked blank Sixteen kids in my health classes have cranial transducers. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 02 - August 1999
  • What are the chief anatomical differences between a typical cranial, a spinal, and a sympathetic nerve 22. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • So, for one reason or another, we have often to put up with that very unsatisfactory single-figure description of the head-form which is known as the cranial index. —  Anthropology
  • The higher races of men have more marked convolutions than those less civilized A view of the under surface of the brain, which rests on the floor of the skull, shows the origin of important nerves, called the cranial nerves, the cerebellum, the structure connecting the optic nerves (optic commissure), the bridge of nervous matter (pons Varolii) connecting the two hemispheres of the cerebellum, and lastly numerous and well-marked convolutions 268. —  A Practical Physiology
 

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  1. From cranium.

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  1. from New Latin cranialis, from cranium, the skull: see cranium.
 

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/ˈkreɪniəl/
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