Skull

(skül,) or CRANIUM. [From Goth. sk alle.] (Anat.) The bony covering of the brain, forming the forehead, and every part of the head except the face. It consists of8 bones-the frontal, occipital, two parietal, two teiporal, the sphenoid, and the ethmoid. The bones are separate in the new-born child, but as age advances they gradually consolidate into a single bone, the joints of union being called the sutures. See cut in next column. [s. 831]