calvarium
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Origin of calvarium
First recorded in 1880–85; from New Latin, neuter variant of Latin calvāria “skull,” equivalent to calv(us) “bald” + -āria neuter plural of suffix -arius; compare late Middle English calvaria (from Latin ), calvair (from Middle French); see origin at -ary
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Because this type of cell is present in the top of the skull, or "calvarium," in mice, they suspected that it has a role in causing craniosynostosis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
"We observed that we could partly prevent calvarial fusion by injecting IGF-1 over the calvarium," said study first author Dr. Seoyeon Bok, a postdoctoral researcher in the Greenblatt laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
In the human "calvarium" in question, the mid-line traced backward from the super-orbital ridge runs along a smooth track.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various
The outer table is the most elastic layer of the calvarium, and it varies greatly in thickness in different skulls and in different parts of the same skull.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Even in cases where adhesions were found between the dura and calvarium and these were broken up, the relief afforded was usually but temporary.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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
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
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
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