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Amphioxus :: Amphioxus (n.) A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebrae, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc..

Basi- :: Basi- () A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc..

Supracretaceous :: Supracranial (a.) Situated above, or in the roof of, the cranium..

Optical :: Optical (a.) Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye..

Acrania :: Acrania (n.) Partial or total absence of the skull.

Microcephalous :: Microcephalous (a.) Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to megacephalic.

Hypoglossal :: Hypoglossal (a.) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue..

Hemicrania :: Hemicrania (n.) A pain that affects only one side of the head.

Otocranial :: Otocranial (a.) Of or pertaining to the otocrane.

Intracranial :: Intracranial (a.) Within the cranium or skull.

Aegicrania :: Aegicrania (n. pl.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls..

Bucrania :: Bucrania (pl. ) of Bucraniu.

Glossopharyngeal :: Glossopharyngeal (a.) Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves..

Trigeminal :: Trigeminal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the fifth pair of cranial nerves, which divide on each side of the head into three main branches distributed to the orbits, jaws, and parts of the mouth; trifacial..

Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.

Cranial :: Cranial (a.) Of or pertaining to the cranium.

Subcrustaceous :: Subcranial (a.) Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the cranium; facial..

Oculomotor :: Oculomotor (a.) Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit.

Acranial :: Acranial (a.) Wanting a skull.

Epicranial :: Epicranial (a.) Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.

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