Used mainly in medical or anatomical discussions to describe skull-related conditions or structures.

Medical Context

'Cranial' is specifically about the head; don't confuse with spinal or related to the backbone.

Specific Anatomy

It's a scientific term so you might not use it in everyday conversations.

Technical Language

 by the time we turned it over yet to turn it over the vehicle inside the bones of a fragile animal so fragile that you could see light through some of the cranial bones this is the cheek bone with a light passing through it it was so fragile that we said we really couldn't take the chance of casting and

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 which dramatically affect many people’s quality of life? Tension headaches and most secondary cases can be treated with over-the-counter pain medications, such as anti-inflammatory drugs that reduce cranial swelling. And many secondary headache triggers, like dehydration, eye strain, and stress,

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 So this is the moment when I started thinking, okay, cranial drilling, laparoscopic surgery, why not other areas of medicine? Because think about it, when was the last time you went to the doctor and you didn't get stuck with something? Right? So the truth is in medicine puncture is everywhere.

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 is probably not right at all. There's very little room in the cranial vault, only a few millimeters, and it's filled entirely with cerebral spinal fluid, which acts as a protective layer. And so the brain as a whole probably moves very little inside the skull.

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 the truly rare things what we paleoanthropologists generously call partial skeletons and that means any single piece of the cranial remains teeth or head associated with any single piece of the body of one individual there had at that time been about seven

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 Through a phenomenon called cranial kinesis, or pterygoid walk, each of these rows can be moved independently which allows snakes to drag prey into their throats without the use of front limbs. Python teeth also help this process.

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 adult size before the crest starts to grow now think about them I mean they they're basically retaining their juvenile characteristics very late into what we call untidy so allometric cranial ontogeny is relative skull growth okay

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 Having most recently shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees they had many ape-like traits such as a small cranial capacity. However fossils show that some ancient hominins were also beginning to show human-like characteristics

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 Now think about that. They're basically retaining their juvenile characteristics very late in what we call ontogeny. So allometric cranial ontogeny is relative skull growth.

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 So if you watch this chair as I recline, the headrest comes up to meet my neck. Ideally you want to put the head support in the cranial area, right there.