Definitions for cranium

cranium cra·ni·um

Spelling: [krey-nee-uh m]
IPA: /ˈkreɪ ni əm/

Cranium is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in cranium (acimnru).

Definitions for cranium

noun

  1. the skull of a vertebrate.
  2. the part of the skull that encloses the brain.

Origin of cranium

1375-1425; late Middle English craneum Medieval Latin crānium Greek krāníon skull; akin to ceratokoi·ə , cerebr

Examples for cranium

Galusha raised a hand in bewildered fashion and felt of his cranium.

There was nothing slow about the grey matter in her cranium.

But on this 1916 trip some faint glimmering must have penetrated the density of my cranium.

He placed his gun underneath her chin and fired it “up into the cranium.”

His cranium was chock full of entertaining reminiscence, too.

The cranium is of unusual size, and of a long elliptical form.

Frederick Seward suffered intensely from a fracture of the cranium.

The principal significance lies in the tooth and the cranium.

He expresses the rule thus: face anterior, cranium posterior.

It is now well proportioned, the bones of the cranium, formerly flat, are arched.

Word Value for cranium
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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