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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Occurring or situated within the cranium.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated within the cranium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Within the cranium or skull.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the brain or inside of the head. Within the cranium.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective within the skull

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Examples

  • According to the research team, these issues could be caused by increased pressure inside the head - what is known as intracranial pressure - but none of the astronauts reported symptoms that are usually associated with the condition, such as chronic headaches, double vision or ringing in the ears.

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  • A big fear is bleeding strokes called intracranial hemorrhages that, if not fatal, are often especially disabling.

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  • But the biggest predictor, really, here is to making sure those pressures inside the head -- what are called the intracranial pressures inside the head -- remain low, remain normal.

    CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008 2008

  • But, the biggest predictor really here is making sure those pressures inside the head, what are called intracranial pressures inside the head remain low, remain normal.

    CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008 2008

  • But the biggest predictor, really, here is to making sure those pressures inside the head -- what are called the intracranial pressures inside the head -- remain low, remain normal.

    CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2008 2008

  • In the third phase, minimal increases in the volume are within the ventricles; the blood, within the blood vessels. proportional to big rises in the ICP; in the fourth phase, there Both of them work as first regulators of the intracranial is a complete vasomotor arrest, in whose apex the ICP equals pressure (ICP). the MAP. 1 Rev. Fac.

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  • So researchers at the University of California San Diego and Harvard University piggybacked on a rare procedure called intracranial electrophysiology, in which epilepsy patients allow doctors to implant dozens of electrodes directly into their brains.

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