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skull | American Dictionary

skull
noun[ C ]
us/skʌl/
the bones of the head that surround the brain, or infml someone’s mind or head:
He fractured his skull in an automobile accident.
infml Cartoons will fill your skull full of mush.

Examples of skull

skull
The skulls placed in the bowls do not face in any particular direction.
However, even in the plural, an adjective cannot be positioned between the genitive and the head noun: several men's forty-thousand-year-old skulls.
In the case of small mammals, the skulls should always be sent with the skins.
The early decades of the nineteenth century onwards saw the popular expression and interest in reading difference and character through the physical typology of skulls.
Figures 3 and 5 illustrate how the vessels holding skulls 6 and 7 were positioned so that they were almost touching.
In the middle was a great round thatched hut and opposite its entrance another mountain of skulls.
Although the scientific reputation of physiognomics was low, the scientifically accepted investigation of brains and skulls was not so different in principle.
However, it managed to compile an admiringly large assortment of specimens: extensive collections of shells, mammals, skulls, and photographs.
Our real skulls are bigger than the experienced universe.
From the 1790s onward he collected human and animal skulls and some wax models of brains.
First, the fact that ar ticulated mandibles and cervical ver tebrae were recovered along with the skulls indicates that the skulls were interred at least par tially ar ticulated.
Porotic hyperostosis was observed on several skulls.
At the back of the chamber there was a pile of all types of bones (femurs, skulls, ribs, etc.), as well as large ollas full of incinerated bones.
In this case, however, the deposit of disar ticulated skeletal elements matches what is expected for a secondary deposit; it is represented primarily by complete skulls and long bones.
Following perfusion and eye dissection, brains were removed from their skulls and weighed, including olfactory bulbs, and the medulla to the level of the pyramidal decussation.
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skull

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fractured skull
He fell from a building and died of a fracturedskull.
human skull
This means milling of a given trajectory on a humanskull.
partial skull
The specimen consists largely of an impression of the dorsal surface of a partial skull including the orbits.
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