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Also known as cranium, 💀, subdivision of skull

The skull, or cranium, is typically a bony enclosure around the brain of a vertebrate. In some fish and amphibians, the skull is of cartilage. The skull is at the head end of the vertebrate.

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The skull is a subject categorized under "Skulls" on Commons and has a corresponding gallery titled "Animal skull." It is represented by the Unicode character "💀." In medical terminology, it is identified by the NCI Thesaurus ID "C12789." A ground level 360 degree view of the subject is available at a specific URL on zygotebody.com.

The term "skull" appears in a PubMed query that returned a count of 278,634 results. Additionally, the subject is referenced by 2,734 other encyclopedia articles in the Vinony graph.

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Key facts

Anatomy.Name: Skull
Anatomy.System: Skeletal system
Anatomy.image: VolRenderShearWarp.gif
Anatomy.Caption: Volume rendering of a mouse skull

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Research

278,634 papers

Skull Anatomy in "Saint Jerome in the Wilderness" by Leonardo da Vinci.ReviewWorld neurosurgery · 2023Keshelava GDOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2023.04.091
Cerebrospinal fluid can exit into the skull bone marrow and instruct cranial hematopoiesis in mice with bacterial meningitis.Nature neuroscience · 2022Pulous FE, Cruz-Hernández JC, Yang C et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01060-2
Modularity, homology, heterochrony: Gavin de Beer's legacy to the mammalian skull.ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Hall BK, Hanken JDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0078
Automatic skull defect restoration and cranial implant generation for cranioplasty.Medical image analysis · 2021Li J, von Campe G, Pepe A et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2021.102171
Skull dysfunction.Cranio : the journal of craniomandibular practice · 1991Berman SDOI: 10.1080/08869634.1991.11678373
Imaging the brain by traversing the skull with light and sound.ReviewNature biomedical engineering · 2025Estrada H, Deffieux T, Robin J et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01433-5
Age-related skull fracture patterns in infants after low-height falls.Pediatric research · 2023Ruiz-Maldonado TM, Alsanea Y, Coats BDOI: 10.1038/s41390-022-02345-9
A Deep Learning Framework for Skull Stripping in Brain MRI.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2023Tabassum M, Al Suman A, Russo C et al.DOI: 10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340846

Wikidata facts

Part of: axial skeleton
Has part: parietal bone
Image: A2613-Museum Geologi-Fosil Tengkorak.jpg
Has parts of class: bone

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topic's main category: Category:Skull
Commons category: Skulls
Unicode character: 💀
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
NCI Thesaurus ID: C12789
different from: human skull
ground level 360 degree view URL: www.zygotebody.com/#nav=0.75,126.89,58.47,0,0,0,0&sel=p:;h:;s:1059;c:-0.6;o:-0.75&layers=0,1,6250
anatomical location: head
Commons gallery: Animal skull
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

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