pericranium

• “All the bones, excepting so much of the teeth as are out of the sockets, and those parts of other bones which are covered with cartilages, are surrounded by a fine membrane, which on the skull is called pericranium, but in other parts periosteum.”

  Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease

• “It is nourished chiefly from the pericranium which is firmly bound down along the lines of the sutures.”

  Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.

• “Indignantly, Sir Cameron wonders whether Dr. Crany has persuaded Latitia “that some terrible propensities are revealed on the surface of my pericranium” (2.4.696).”

  Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies

• “The ponderous pericranium of General Jan Risingh sank upon his breast; his knees tottered under him; a deathlike torpor seized upon his frame, and he tumbled to the earth with such violence that old Pluto started with affright, lest he should have broken through the roof of his infernal palace.”

  Washington Irving

• “Now, Mrs. Honour had unluckily poured so much of this liquid fire down her throat, that the smoke of it began to ascend into her pericranium, and blinded the eyes of Reason, which is there supposed to keep her residence, while the fire itself from the stomach easily reached the heart, and there inflamed the noble passion of pride.”

  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

• “A most fortunate thought arrived in my pericranium just at that instant.”

  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5

• “The pickets having been driven in, I noticed an animal of striking appearance surrounded by a knot of others, suddenly throw up his head, and elevating his tail simultaneously with his pericranium, wheel suddenly in an opposite direction and gallop away, doubtlessly, as fast as his legs and hoofs would carry him.”

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851

• “The moment you shake hands with them, you feel in the firm flesh of palm and finger that their heart's blood circulates purely and freely from the point of the highest hair on the apex of the pericranium, to the edge of the nail on the large toe of the right foot.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827

• “Charles Lamb gazed at him curiously, rose, went to the sideboard and lighted a candle, with which he advanced, in solemn wise, to where the trite talker sat, and said as one who is about to look at some unusual object of interest-holding his candle near the poor man's head the while: "Will you allow me to examine this gentleman's pericranium?”

  Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.

• “When we first take our place about a man, the receptacles of the pericranium are immediately searched.”

  The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899

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