Usually means: Skull bone enclosing the brain.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. cranium: Merriam-Webster
  2. cranium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cranium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cranium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cranium: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cranium, cranium: Wordnik
  7. cranium: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cranium: Wiktionary
  9. cranium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cranium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cranium: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cranium: Dictionary.com
  13. cranium: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cranium (band), Cranium (board game), Cranium (disambiguation), Cranium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cranium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cranium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cranium: Rhymezone
  18. Cranium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cranium: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cranium: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cranium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cranium: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cranium: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cranium: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. cranium: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cranium: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Cranium, Cranium: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  7. cranium: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  8. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)
  9. -cranium, cranium: Medical dictionary
  10. Cranium: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cranium: Evolution Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cranium: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See crania as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) That part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw.
noun:  (anthropology, informal) The upper portion of the skull, including the neurocranium and facial bones, but not including the jawbone (mandible).
noun:  (informal) Synonym of skull.

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