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Definition of Brainpan
1. Noun. The part of the skull that encloses the brain.
Terms within: Asterion, Stephanion, Ethmoid, Ethmoid Bone, Os Temporale, Temporal Bone, Calvaria, Skullcap, Forehead, Frontal Bone, Os Frontale, Parietal Bone, Occipital Bone, Coronal Suture, Sutura Coronalis, Frontal Suture, Sutura Frontalis, Lamboid Suture, Sutura Lamboidea, Occipitomastoid Suture, Parietomastoid Suture, Interparietal Suture, Sagittal Suture, Sutura Sagittalis, Fontanel, Fontanelle, Soft Spot, Foramen Magnum
Generic synonyms: Bone, Os
Group relationships: Skull
Derivative terms: Cranial
Definition of Brainpan
1. n. The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.
Definition of Brainpan
1. Noun. (alternative form of brain-pan) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brainpan
1. the skull [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brainpan
Literary usage of Brainpan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eliza Cook's journal by Eliza Cook (1853)
"Sir Matthew brainpan and his lady passed that way. " Poor Annie," said her
ladyship ; " 'tis a sad breakdown. ..."
2. Thirty Strange Stories by Herbert George Wells (1897)
"You really must n't keep your door open with a human brainpan. ... Man alive,
that's not a brainpan. Where's your science ? " " No. ..."
3. The Princess by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1897)
"I learnt more from her in a flash, 375 Than if my brainpan were an empty hull,
And every Muse ... 876. brainpan, the part of the skull that holds the brain. ..."
4. A Delineation of the Strata of Derbyshire: Forming the Surface from Bolsover by White Watson (1811)
"... and its capacious brainpan is a corresponding proof; for, after the Miners
had conferred on it the appellation of the (giant's tooth, the brainpan must ..."
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