endocranial cast

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noun Archaeology.

a cast of the inside of the cranium, as of a fossil skull, used to determine brain size and shape.

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Also called endocast.

Origin of endocranial cast

First recorded in 1920–25

Words nearby endocranial cast

endocervix, endochondral bone, endochondral ossification, endocolitis, endocranial, endocranial cast, endocranium, endocrine, endocrine disruptor, endocrine gland, endocrine system

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How to use endocranial cast in a sentence

Obviously, not all the original cast can come back or even have the desire.
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It cast this pall over the movie, which was one of my favorites of last year.
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They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.
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The motherly woman received the babe instinctively and cast aside the travelling-rug in which he was enveloped.
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Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.
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Mrs. Newbolt was looking away toward the hills, a dreamy cast in her placid face.
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He was cast down to think that he might have spared himself the trouble of donning his beautiful yellow doublet from Paris.
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British Dictionary definitions for endocranial cast

endocranial cast

/ (ˌɛndəʊˈkreɪnɪəl) /

noun

a cast made of the inside of a cranial cavity to show the size and shape of the brain: used esp in anthropologySometimes shortened to: endocast

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