Loading page
say it: KRAY-nyuhl
cranial is an adjective meaning "of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain". It is pronounced /ˈkɹeɪnjəl/ — KRAY-nyuhl. It carries one recorded sense.
of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain
“cranial pressure”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cranial come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.