INTRACRANIAL CAVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intracranial cavity mean? 

• INTRACRANIAL CAVITY (noun)
  The noun INTRACRANIAL CAVITY has 1 sense:

1. the cavity enclosed by the cranium

  Familiarity information: INTRACRANIAL CAVITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTRACRANIAL CAVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cavity enclosed by the cranium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cranial cavity; intracranial cavity

Hypernyms ("intracranial cavity" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

 Context examples 

Malignant neoplasms which arise or occur within the intracranial cavity below the tentorium cerebelli.

(Malignant Infratentorial Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Arteries which have their origins within the intracranial cavity.

(Intracranial Artery, NCI Thesaurus)