Upper part of skull, consisting of parietals, frontals, post-parietals, and in some species the squamosal and a portion of the alisphenoid. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11523816 MP:0000076 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvaria_(skull) ]
Synonyms: skull vault cranial vault calva
Term information
- ZFA:0005606
- FMA:52800
- EHDAA2:0002167
- VHOG:0000331
- NCIT:C81188
- Wikipedia:Calvaria_(skull)
- EHDAA:9538
- SCTID:140592008
- EMAPA:18016
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Terminology notes. we include calvarium as a synonym, but Gray's Anatomy's list includes the Ethmoid and Sphenoid bone in the Calvaria. Some books (and HPO) state that calvaria consists of just the frontal bone, parietal bone, temporal bone, and occipital bone. Note vault may not be precisely equivalent to calvaria
Term relations
- subdivision of skeleton
- contributes to morphology of some cranium
- part of some neurocranium
- overlaps some dermatocranium