calvaria
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of calvaria
C14: from Late Latin: (human) skull, from Latin calvus bald
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It is subdivided into the rounded top of the skull, called the calvaria, and the base of the skull.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
It consists of the rounded calvaria and a complex base.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The head consists of the calvaria, or part covered with hair, which is divided into three regions, the bregma or fore part, the crown, and the occiput.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
They are all more or less distorted in a discoidal manner, one by pressure over the frontal sinus, reducing the calvaria to a disk.
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
CALVARY, the conventional English rendering of the calvaria of the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Greek κράνιον, both meaning “skull” and representing the Hebrew Golgotha, the name given to the scene of Christ’s crucifixion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
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