A single occipital bone forms the base of the skull and the frontal bone forms the forehead.
Roof of skull.
The eight bones of the neurocranium form major portions of the skull and protect the brain.
In comparative anatomy the term is used on the full dermatocranium.
The bones are derived from dermal bone and are part of the dermatocranium.
Facial part rostral part making up the muzzle and the roof of the nasal cavity the neurocranial part of the roof of the skull is aka.
Called also cranial vault.
Cal var i ums or cal var i a ē ə the upper domelike portion of the skull without the lower jaw or the lower jaw and the facial parts.
It is overlaying the endocranium corresponding to the cartilaginous skull in sharks and rays.
Kal var e ah the domelike superior portion of the cranium comprising the superior portions of the frontal parietal and occipital bones.
Cranial part actually caudal in position covering the brain 2.
The neurocranium consists of two temporal bones situated to the base and side of the skull and two parietal bones that make up the roof of the skull.
The various separate bones that compose the temporal bone of humans are also part of the skull roof series.
Latin calvāria skull from calva from calvus bald american heritage dictionary of the english language fifth edition.