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The term "cranium" has been employed in literature with a variety of nuances, ranging from its literal anatomical reference to a component in vivid narrative imagery. In some contexts, such as in Jules Verne's work, the word is used graphically to underscore physical trauma and human vulnerability, as when a cranium is shattered to expose the brain ([1]). In a different instance in the same work, it contributes to the bizarre and fantastical description of Captain Nemo's elaborate headgear, blending the literal with the imaginative ([2]). Beyond the realm of narrative fiction, "cranium" appears in more technical or classificatory texts; J.M. Barrie and Edgar Thurston employ the term within discussions of biological taxonomy and anthropological difference ([3], [4]). Its usage even extends into language studies, as seen in Spanish lexical references ([5]), and into philosophical reflections on the physicality of human conflict, highlighted in Henri Bergson's work where crania become targets in a stylized act of combat ([6]).
  1. The cranium had been smashed open by some blunt instrument, leaving the naked brains exposed, and the cerebral matter had suffered deep abrasions.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  2. Captain Nemo inserted his cranium into its spherical headgear.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
  3. The first and lower division comprises the vertebrates that have no vertebræ or skull [ 183 ] ( cranium ).
    — from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
  4. In their type of cranium they occupy a position intermediate between the dolichocephalic Pallis and the sub-brachy cephalic Canarese classes.
    — from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
  5. cráneo , m. , cranium, skull.
    — from A First Spanish Reader by Alfred Remy and Erwin W. Roessler
  6. In their hands they carried large sticks which each, in turn, brought down on to the other's cranium.
    — from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

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