Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Surrounding the cranium; investing the skull, as a membrane; of or pertaining to the pericranium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pericranium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Of or pertaining to the
pericranium .
Etymologies
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peri- + cranial
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Examples
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_diploë_ -- is highly vascular, branches of the meningeal vessels anastomosing freely in its open porous substance with branches derived from the pericranial vessels.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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