crane ladle (kranla "dl)

In founding, a are reckoned as eight in number: the occipital, the two parietals, the two temporals, the frontal, the sphenoid, and the ethmoid; but all these are compound bones, excepting the parietals; even the frontal consists of a pair. See cut under craniofacial. - Cranial nerves, those nerves which make their exit from the cranial cavity through cranial foramina, whether arising from the brain or the spinal cord. They are regarded as forming from three to twelve pairs. When twelve are enumerated, they are (in the order given) the olfactory, the optic, the motor crane.