cranial bones

American  

[kray-nee-uhl bohns] / ˈkreɪ ni əl ˈboʊns /

noun

1. the bones that form the cranium.

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Example Sentences

But one twin's diagnosis with acrania — a rare, fatal congenital disorder characterized by the full or partial absence of cranial bones — sent Brandt's world into a grief-stricken tailspin.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

The eight cranial bones are the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, occipital bone, sphenoid bone, and the ethmoid bone.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Schultze immediately realized its importance: similarities in the arrangement and shape of the cranial bones preserved in this fossil and Westoll's skull roof showed they belonged to the same species.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2020

The work suggests declining temperatures trigger shrews to literally break down their cranial bones and warm weather cues them to rebuild.

From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2017

And no investigator of homologies doubts that a considerable number of the bones which form the skull of any osseous fish are distinctly homologous with the cranial bones of man.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George