Anat. [L. calvāria skull, f. calv-us bald-headed, bare, calva the scalp. The form in -um is modern and not of Latin authority.] ‘That portion of the skull which is above the orbits, temples, ears, and occipital protuberance’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. iv. (1495), 108. Caluaria the formest partye of the skulle hath that name of balde bones.
1866. Huxley, Preh. Rem. Caithn., 88. The calvaria is remarkable for the projection of the supraciliary ridges.
1882. Owen, in Longm. Mag., I. 64. What is posed as the ‘Neanderthal skull’ is the roof of the brain-case, or ‘calvarium’ of the anatomist.
