cranium

• The skull was solid enough to deflect a bullet in many circumstances, and the cranium was also relatively small and hard to hit. —  The Twelfth Card
• They say that "quite frequently though the percussion comes in the anterior part of the cranium, the cranium is fractured on the opposite part. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• If, now, the hair is formed as a very much flattened rod about one-half as wide in one diameter as in the other, it curls into a very tight close spiral and gives the frizzly or woolly head-covering of the Papuan and of the Negro In the next place, the shape of the cranium is a character of much value. —  The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope
• The parapet, the wavy hair, the high cranium are all so many outward and visible signs of Giorgione's spirit, whilst none but he could have created such magnificent contrasts of colour, such effects of light and shade. —  Giorgione
• A small oblique eye (the Chinese eye), when associated with lateral development of the cranium, and ears drawn back, indicates a predisposition to murder The eye opens only in the first emotion; then it becomes calm, closing gradually; an eye wide open in emotion, denotes stupidity Of the Eyebrows. —  Delsarte System of Oratory

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