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braincase
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braincase [′brān‚kās]
(anatomy)
cranium


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Her brain case and face share many features with skull pieces from Sahelanthropus, a 6- to 7-million-yearold hominid in Chad (SN: 7/13/02, p.
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The cranium, or top portion of the human skull, is a large, solid, relatively shockproof brain case made of eight sections of bone that meld after birth into a single unit, and these connections are called sutures The structure itself is called the cranial vault The cranium, or top portion of the human skull, is a large, solid, relatively shockproof brain case made of eight sections of bone that meld after birth into a single unit, and these connections are called sutures.
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To a far greater degree than we are prompted to suppose we do, we take our words to be reality, and by so much we lose contact with the world outside the bony brain cases from which we peer nearly unsightfully.
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