Another anatomical term for the skull vault or braincase, similar to calvaria.
From Latin calvarium, a variant form of calvaria, both from calvus (bald). This form is less commonly used in modern anatomy but appears in historical medical texts and some specialized contexts.
Sometimes you'll find 'calvarium' in older medical texts or museum specimen labels because it was the preferred Latin form before 'calvaria' became standardized—it's like the Latin equivalent of how we sometimes still use 'datum' even though 'data' is more common.
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