calvaria
UK/kælˈvɛəɹi.ə/US/kælˈvɛɹi.ə/
calvaria noun: the dome or roof of the skull, the skullcap. Also the plural of calvarium.
Noun
calvaria (plural calvariae or calvarias)
- The dome or roof of the skull, the skullcap.
- CD105 Thy1- progenitor populations derived from regions of the fetal mandible or calvaria that do not undergo endochondral ossification formed only bone without marrow in our assay.2008 December 10, Charles K. F. Chan et al., “Endochondral ossification is required for haematopoietic stem-cell niche formation”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, →DOI
- Synonyms:
- calvarium
Also used as
calvaria is also the plural of calvarium.
Synonyms of calvaria
Forms of calvaria
| plural | calvariae |
|---|---|
| plural | calvarias |
Origin of calvaria
From Latin calvāria (“skull”). Doublet of calvarium, calavera, and calvary.
By the standard Latin plural inflection -a for Latin nouns ending in -um (second declension). The word calvarium was a New Latin coinage from earlier Latin calvaria, and English naturalized it and its plural form intact via unadapted borrowing, as well as allowing a regularized English plural, calvariums; it also did the same thing with calvaria, calvariae, calvarias (first declension), as well.
Words formed from calvaria
Words that rhyme with calvaria
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- Hilaria
- Hungaria
- laminaria
- malaria
- rosaria
- sanguinaria
- sigillaria
- -aria
- adularia
- alfilaria
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- Anastenaria
- angaria
- antimalaria
- aquaria
- araucaria
- armillaria
- auricularia
- balistraria
- baria
- Bavaria
- Bedeque and Area
- bipinnaria
- brachiaria
- brachiolaria
- Bulgaria
- Caffraria
- calceolaria
- Caria
- carinaria
- cephalaria
- cercaria
- churrascaria
- cnidaria
- congiaria
- convallaria
- crotalaria
- cusparia
- dataria
- dirofilaria
- filaria
- fritillaria
- globularia
- hypobaria
- Icaria
- Kaffraria
- lacunaria
- laquearia
- ligularia
- linaria
- Lot 11 and Area
- macrofilaria
- mammillaria
- matricaria
- metacercaria
- microfilaria
- miliaria
- militaria
- nonmalaria
Questions about calvaria
- What does calvaria mean?
- Calvaria means the dome or roof of the skull, the skullcap.
- What part of speech is calvaria?
- Calvaria is a noun.
- How do you pronounce calvaria?
- Calvaria is pronounced /kælˈvɛəɹi.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of calvaria?
- The plural of calvaria is calvariae.
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