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| Cranium | The cranium of the skull comprises all of the bones of the skull except for the mandible. |
| Skull | The skull refers to all of the bones that comprise the head. |
| Calvaria | The calvaria refers to the cranium without the facial bones attached. |
| Calotte | The calotte consists of the calvaria from which the base has been removed. |
| Splanchocranium | The splanchocranium refers to the facial bones of the skull. |
| Neurocranium | The neurocranium refers only to the braincase of the skull. |
| Endocranial | Refers to the interior of the braincase. |
| Suture | The saw-like edge of a cranial bone that serves as joint between bones of the skull. |
| Fissure | A narrow slit or gap. |
| Foramen | A hole in a bone usually for the transmission of blood vessels and/or nerves. |
| Fossa | A pit, depression, or concavity, on a bone, or formed from several bones. |
| Spinous | Descriptive of a sharp, slender process. |
| Tubercle | A small process or bump, an eminence. |
| Tuberosity | A large rounded process or eminence. |
| Pterion | H shaped suture between the frontal, parietal, squamous temporal and the greater wing of the sphenoid. |
| Suprameatal triangle | Located supero-posteriorly to the external auditory meatus, formed by a tangent off the opening of the EAM, the anterior edge of the mastoid process and the superior margin of the opening of the EAM. It overlies the mastoid antrum (air space) and tenderness here suggests infection of the air space(mastoiditis). |
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