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Join :: "Join (v. i.) To be contiguous, close, or in contact; to come together; to unite; to mingle; to form a union; as, the hones of the skull join; two rivers join..

Pannikel :: Pannikel (n.) The brainpan, or skull; hence, the crest..

Diploe :: Diploe (n.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull..

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

Skullfish :: Skullfish (n.) A whaler's name for a whale more than two years old.

Orthognathous :: Orthognathous (a.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic..

Craniognomy :: Craniognomy (n.) The science of the form and characteristics of the skull.

Zuchetto :: Zuchetto (n.) A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta. The pope's is white; a cardinal's red; a bishop's purple; a priest's black..

Pileus :: Pileus (n.) A kind of skull cap of felt.

Acrocephalic :: Acrocephalic (a.) Characterized by a high skull.

Autostylic :: Autostylic (a.) Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia..

Parachordal :: Parachordal (a.) Situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord.

Sphenethmoid :: Sphenethmoid (a.) Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal..

Fontanel :: Fontanel (n.) One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.

Epipteric :: Epipteric (a.) Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid.

Bregma :: Bregma (n.) The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

Crania :: Crania (n.) A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.

Ethmovomerine :: Ethmovomerine (n.) Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull.

Craniota :: Craniota (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull..

Otocrane :: Otocrane (n.) The cavity in the skull in which the parts of the internal ear are lodged.

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