Cranial

Definition: Cranial

Cranial

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain; "cranial pressure".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cranial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Health

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Cranial

Portuguese (cranial).

Books

• Cranial and Spinal MRI and CT (reference)

• Cranial Base Surgery (reference)

• Cranial Computed Tomography in Infants and Children (Clinics in Developmental Medicine, No 93) (reference)

• Cranial Manipulation Theory and Practice: Osseous and Soft Tissue Approaches (reference)

• Cranial Nerves: Anatomy and Clinical Comments (reference)

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Periodicals

• Cranial Letter (reference)

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Music

• Forced Cranial Removal (reference)

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Medical illustrations - on composite photography as applied to craniology : Ascertaining capacity of cranial cavity by means of water. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Cranial shape of skull of sane man in figure 3 and 4 compared to skull shape of insane man] / Maleuvre, sc. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Spasmodic torticollis can be classified as a type of cranial dystonia. (references)

Surgical blocks are performed on cranial, peripheral, or sympathetic nerves. (references)

Cranial sutures are fibrous joints that join the bones of the skull together. (references)

Human Rights

Central African Republic

Medical reports revealed that Tembeley suffered cranial trauma, contusions, serious hematomas, and possibly broken ribs. (references)

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Expressions using "cranial": cranial cavity ♦ cranial computed tomography ♦ Cranial Facial Balancing ♦ cranial index ♦ Cranial Irradiation ♦ cranial nerve ♦ Cranial Nerve Diseases ♦ Cranial Nerve Injuries ♦ Cranial Nerve Neoplasms ♦ cranial nerves ♦ cranial orbit ♦ Cranial Sinuses ♦ Cranial Sutures ♦ eight cranial nerve ♦ eighth cranial nerve ♦ eleventh cranial nerve ♦ fifth cranial nerve ♦ first cranial nerve ♦ fourth cranial nerve ♦ ninth cranial nerve ♦ pairs of cranial nerves ♦ prophylactic cranial irradiation ♦ second cranial nerve ♦ seventh cranial nerve ♦ sixth cranial nerve ♦ tenth cranial nerve ♦ third cranial nerve ♦ twelfth cranial nerve. Additional references.

Ending with "cranial": post-cranial, postcranial-cranial.

Albanian

kafkor, i kafkës. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قحفي, ‏جمجمي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

черепен (cephalic), краниален. (various references)

Chinese 

头盖骨. (various references)

Czech

lebeèní. (various references)

Danish

cranial, kranie-, kranial (in cranial direction, superior). (various references)

Dutch

craniaal (in cranial direction, superior). (various references)

Farsi 

جمجمه ای . (various references)

Finnish

päävamma (cranial trauma, head trauma), kraniaalinen tietokonetomografia (cranial computed tomography), kallonpohjan kasvaimet (cranial base tumors, cranial base tumours, skull base tumors, skull base tumours), kallon tietokonekerroskuvaus (cranial computed tomography), Heidenheinin kranioplastia (cranial plasty). (various references)

French

crânien (crane's). (various references)

German

kranial (in cranial direction, superior). (various references)

Greek 

κρανιακόσ, κρανιακός (in cranial direction, superior). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'ול�'ולתי. (various references)

Hungarian

koponya-. (various references)

Indonesian

tentang tengkorak. (various references)

Italian

cranico, craniale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

脳神経 (cranial nerves). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のうし�"けい (cranial nerves). (various references)

Korean 

두개골 (skull). (various references)

Manx

claiginagh (capitate, scalp, skull-like), bollagagh (skull-like). (various references)

Pig Latin

anialcray

Portuguese

craniano. (various references)

Russian 

черепной. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kranijalni. (various references)

Spanish

craneal. (various references)

Swedish

skall-, kranie- (cephalic). (various references)

Turkish

kafatasına ait, kafatası (brainpan, cranium, skull). (various references)

Ukrainian

черепний. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cranial": cranially. (additional references)

Words ending with "cranial": extracranial, intracranial, pericranial, postcranial. (additional references)

Words containing "cranial": intracranially, postcranially. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cranial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Braniak, Caranfil, carial, Carinhall, carneal, Carnhill, Caronia, Cerdanya, circannual, craia, crainal, crainial, cranal, cranaly, cranea, craneal, cranialy, cranian, cranical, cranio, cranola, Creina, Crendal, crenial, Criana, crinical, crinoidal, Grianail, krasnaia, Krengiel, Mcrandal. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carinal.

-1 letter: acinar, arnica, carina, carlin, carnal, crania, narial, racial.

-2 letters: acari, cairn, canal, craal, laari, lanai, liana, linac, naira, naric.

-3 letters: airn, alan, alar, anal, anil, aria, aril, cain, carl, carn, clan, laic, lain, lair, lari, liar, lira, nail, narc, raia, rail, rain, rani, rial.

-4 letters: aal, ail, ain, air, ala, ana, ani, arc, can.

-5 letters: aa.

+1 letter: cardinal, carnival, craaling.

+2 letters: ancillary, arsenical, branchial, canicular, cantorial, cardinals, carnality, carnelian, carnivals, cranially, lacunaria, navicular, nonracial.

+3 letters: aldermanic, anarchical, arsenicals, caracoling, cardinally, carnallite, carnassial, carnelians, culinarian, fractional, lacerating, laceration, monarchial, naviculars, placarding, rabbinical, recanalize, retinacula, scarlatina, tractional, tyrannical, unicameral.

+4 letters: acriflavine, aeronomical, alcyonarian, altercating, altercation, ancillaries, anthropical, antinuclear, antiradical, archangelic, archegonial, berascaling, calendaring, calendrical, calibrating, calibration, calumniator, canalicular, caracolling, cardinalate, cardinality, carnalities, carnallites, carnassials, carpogonial, cavaliering, chamberlain, chancroidal, charcoaling, clairvoyant, coplanarity, culinarians, declaration, endocardial, flagrancies, frantically, hibernacula, increasable, intercalary, intercalate, interfacial, interracial, intractable, intractably, intraocular, intrathecal, lacerations, lacrimation, matriculant, microfaunal, monarchical, nonracially, organically, panegyrical, pantropical, pericranial, postcranial, puritanical, racewalking, radicalness, rapscallion, rebalancing, recanalized, recanalizes, reclamation, redactional, scarlatinal, scarlatinas, thrasonical, tracklaying, unpractical.