ENDOCRANIUM (endocrania)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: endocrania   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does endocranium mean? 

• ENDOCRANIUM (noun)
  The noun ENDOCRANIUM has 1 sense:

1. membrane lining the inside of the skull

  Familiarity information: ENDOCRANIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDOCRANIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Membrane lining the inside of the skull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("endocranium" is a kind of...):

membrane; tissue layer (a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants)

Holonyms ("endocranium" is a part of...):

skull (the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates)

 Context examples 

It is mostly fused with the outer layer, the endocranium that is adherent to the inner aspect of the cranial bones.

(Meningeal Layer of the Dura Mater, NCI Thesaurus)