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Brainpan

noun
1.
The part of the skull that encloses the brain.  Synonyms: braincase, cranium.






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"Brainpan" Quotes from Famous Books



... up, and seeing what was poking about in the tower, ran for an ax; nor did he hesitate a moment when he returned with one, but sprang up the ladder and commenced chopping away at that hideous face. The thing didn't have sufficient brainpan to entertain more than a single idea at once. Though chopped and hacked, and with a bullethole between its eyes, it still persisted madly in its attempt to get inside the tower and devour Olson, though its body was many times the diameter of the hatch; nor did it cease its efforts ...
— The Land That Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... laughing!" cried Doughby—"Steward, another glass—d'ye hear, you cursed neger, where are you hidden? Don't you hear when a gentleman speaks to you? D'ye want me to tattoo your black brainpan? You laugh," he continued to Richards and myself, relapsing into his whimpering tones; "but if you only knew—none of the women will have me—this is the seventh ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various



Words linked to "Brainpan" :   ethmoid bone, calvaria, soft spot, skull, ethmoid, lamboid suture, os frontale, cranium, os, interparietal suture, occipitomastoid suture, foramen magnum, frontal bone, occipital bone, sagittal suture, bone, sutura coronalis, braincase, parietomastoid suture, frontal suture, sutura sagittalis, parietal bone, sutura lamboidea, stephanion, fontanelle, sutura frontalis, forehead, skullcap, os temporale, fontanel, temporal bone, coronal suture, asterion



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