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Calvaria

//kælˈvɛəɹi.ə// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    plural of calvarium form-of, plural
  3. 3
    the dome of the skull wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin calvāria (“skull”). Doublet of calvarium, calavera, and calvary.

Etymology 2

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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