Thesaurus results for CRANIUM

cranium

noun

ˈkrā-nē-əm

as in skull

the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates the cranium of a Neanderthal is striking for its brow ridges

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Recent Examples of cranium The other two craniums were found in 1990. —

Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Dec. 2025 At one point, a character is forced to stand in front of an automatic football launcher and take a series of pigskins to the cranium, each of which is shot at him with increasing speed. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025 Of course, something similar typified our evolution, too, which can all too easily be cast as the blossoming forth of ever-plumper craniums. —

Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025 Eventually, the villager spotted something unexpected—the nearly complete cranium of an unknown, ancient hominin protruding from a small chamber’s interior wall. —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cranium

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skull

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To prevent swelling, surgeons would typically remove a portion of the skull called the bone flap, treat the underlying blood clot, and then restore the bone flap soon after.

— Martha Raddatz, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
Based on an analysis of 85 species of dinosaurs, the study concluded that tiny arms were an evolutionary trade-off caused by another body part becoming ever larger and taking up resources — the skull.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 25 May 2026