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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That part of the skull which incloses the brain; the cranium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of brain-pan.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the part of the skull that encloses the brain

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