Skull
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The skull is a bony structure found in many animals which serves as the general framework for the head. The skull supports the structures of the face and protects the head against injury.
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See also
- Craniometry
- Skull (symbolism)
- Trepanation
- For the Love of God (artwork) by Damien Hirst
- A Journey Round My Skull, a lit blog
- Magdalen's skull, a Renaissance story
- Pyramid of Skulls, a painting by by Paul Cézanne
- The Apotheosis of War (1871), a painting by Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
- Phrenology, the pseudoscientific process of determining personality from the shape of the head.
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