Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the endocranium; situated or taking place within the cranium.

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  • adjective within the cranium
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the endocranium

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Examples

  • These all “have the small endocranial volume less than 550 cm and generally gracile characteristics that seem to distinguish them from the robust species,” he wrote in Nature in 1976.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • These all “have the small endocranial volume less than 550 cm and generally gracile characteristics that seem to distinguish them from the robust species,” he wrote in Nature in 1976.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Now, here's a chart of endocranial volumes of Pleistocene human fossils:

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Now, here's a chart of endocranial volumes of Pleistocene human fossils:

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science David Dobbs none@example.com 2010

  • Now, here's a chart of endocranial volumes of Pleistocene human fossils:

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science David Dobbs none@example.com 2010

  • Now, here's a chart of endocranial volumes of Pleistocene human fossils:

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science David Dobbs none@example.com 2010

  • Now, here's a chart of endocranial volumes of Pleistocene human fossils:

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science David Dobbs none@example.com 2010

  • Now, here's a chart of endocranial volumes of Pleistocene human fossils:

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science David Dobbs none@example.com 2010

  • For all terrestrial carnivore groups, the authors compiled data on endocranial volume (brain size) and body mass, to estimate relative brain size or encephalization.

    "news" via big sleep in Google Reader 2009

  • The authors virtually reconstructed the skull of a Neanderthal neonate found at Mezmaiskaya and estimated the endocranial volume.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2008

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