Usually means: Bony structure enclosing the brain.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. osteocranium: Wordnik
  2. osteocranium: Wiktionary
  3. osteocranium: Dictionary.com
  4. Osteocranium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. osteocranium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Osteocranium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. osteocranium: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Osteocranium: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. osteocranium: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. osteocranium: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (osteocranium)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium.

Similar:
ectocranium, cranium, otocrane, epicranium, skull, desmocranium, cranial base, opisthocranion, paracranium, postcranium, more...

Opposite:
braincase, neurocranium

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Similar:
ectocranium, cranium, otocrane, epicranium, skull, desmocranium, cranial base, opisthocranion, paracranium, postcranium, more...

Opposite:
braincase, neurocranium



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