Calvaria
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The dome or roof of the skull, the skullcap.
"CD105 Thy1- progenitor populations derived from regions of the fetal mandible or calvaria that do not undergo endochondral ossification formed only bone without marrow in our assay."
- 2 plural of calvarium form-of, plural
- 3 the dome of the skull wordnet
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More examples"CD105 Thy1- progenitor populations derived from regions of the fetal mandible or calvaria that do not undergo endochondral ossification formed only bone without marrow in our assay."
Etymology
From Latin calvāria (“skull”). Doublet of calvarium, calavera, and calvary.
By the standard Latin plural inflection -a for Latin nouns ending in -um (second declension). The word calvarium was a New Latin coinage from earlier Latin calvaria, and English naturalized it and its plural form intact via unadapted borrowing, as well as allowing a regularized English plural, calvariums; it also did the same thing with calvaria, calvariae, calvarias (first declension), as well.
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