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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 196 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SKULL , the See also:

skeleton of the See also:head, composed of 22 bones, 8 of which See also:form the skeleton of the cranium, 14 that of the See also:face. Except the See also:lower See also:jaw, which is movable, the bones are all firmly See also:united by immovable See also:joints. In the following See also:article it is considered more profitable to treat the skull as a whole than to detail the bones separately, and for this purpose a normal See also:European skull will be studied from in front (norma facialis), from above (norma verticalis), from the See also:side (norma lateralis), from behind (norma occipitalis) and from below (norma basalis). Afterwards the interior of it will be considered by means of sections.

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