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กะโหลกศีรษะ

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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.

Synthesized by Vinony from 8 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Vinony's link graph records 2,734 inbound references to กะโหลกศีรษะ, and connects out to maxilla, zygomatic bone and mastoid part of the temporal bone.

It sits within the topics Bones of the head and neck, Flat bones and Human head and neck.

Vinony links it to 118 Wikipedia language editions.

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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Categories

Bones of the head and neck Flat bones Human head and neck Skull Vertebrate anatomy