CRANIAL CAVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cranial cavity mean? 

• CRANIAL CAVITY (noun)
  The noun CRANIAL CAVITY has 1 sense:

1. the cavity enclosed by the cranium

  Familiarity information: CRANIAL CAVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRANIAL CAVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cavity enclosed by the cranium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cranial cavity; intracranial cavity

Hypernyms ("cranial cavity" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

 Context examples 

A meningioma that arises within the cranial cavity.

(Intracranial Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A large orifice in the occipital bone through which the spinal cord enters the cranial cavity.

(Foramen Magnum, NCI Thesaurus)

A grade I, slowly growing meningioma within the cranial cavity.

(Benign Intracranial Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

The nerve travels from the inner ear, enters the cranial cavity through the internal auditory foramen and joins the brainstem.

(Murine Vestibulocochlear Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

An anaplastic meningioma that arises within the cranial cavity.

(Anaplastic (Malignant) Intracranial Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Both were agreed that the monsters were practically brainless, that there was no room for reason in their tiny cranial cavities, and that if they have disappeared from the rest of the world it was assuredly on account of their own stupidity, which made it impossible for them to adapt themselves to changing conditions.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)