Part 141

CRA´NIAL, a. Pertaining to the skull.

CRA´NIUM, n. Skull.

CREST, CRIS´TA, n. Any lengthened feathers of top or sides of head.

CRIB´RIFORM, a. Sieve-like.

CRI´COID, a. Name of a certain laryngeal cartilage.

CRIS´SUM, n. Properly, the under tail-coverts collectively. Oftener used to designate the circumanal plumage. (66.)

CRO´TAPHYTE (depression). A concavity on the outside of the skull on each side behind, filled with muscle; temporal fossa.

CROWN, n. Pileus; top of head, especially the vertex.

CRU´CIAL, CRU´CIFORM, a. In the shape of a cross. The crucial test is one experimentally conclusive.

CRURÆ´US, n. Name of a certain muscle of the thigh.

CRU´RAL, a. Pertaining to the crus, or shin.

CRUS, n. The shin; segment of the leg between the thigh and ankle, represented by the tibia.

CRYS´TALLINE (lens), a. See LENS.

CU´BIT, n. The forearm.

CU´BITAL, a. Pertaining to the forearm.

CU´CULLATE, a. Hooded.

CUL-DE-SAC, n. “Bottom of a bag”; closed end of a cavity.

CUL´MEN, n. Ridge of upper mandible; highest median lengthwise line of the bill. (20.)

CUL´MINAL, a. Pertaining to the culmen.

CULTRIROS´TRAL, a. Having the bill shaped like a heron’s.

CUN´EATE, CUN´EIFORM, a. Wedge-shaped. A cuneate tail has the middle feathers longest, the rest successively regularly shortened.

CUN´EIFORM (bone), n. One of the wrist-bones.

CURSO´RIAL, a. Running; pertaining or belonging to an obsolete group, Cursores or runners.

CUS´PIDATE, a. Pointed as a spear-head.

CUTA´NEOUS, a. Pertaining to the skin. Same as dermal.

CU´TICLE, n. Scarf-skin; outermost layer of skin, which continually exfoliates.

CU´TIS, n. Skin; the true skin, as distinguished from cuticle and subcutaneous tissue. Corium and derma are synonymous.

CYST, n. Sac holding pathological products.