cranium

He placed his gun underneath her chin and fired it “up into the cranium.”

Old Sanders tapped with both hands on his shining cranium and asked, Are you confident he loves her?

And old Sanders again tapped in the rhythm of a dirge on his parchment-bound cranium.

Suddenly the old man beat a tattoo on his cranium and closed his eyes, apparently deep in thought.

The cranium has a low, depressed arch, with a very narrow frontal region and highly developed superciliary ridges.

Seventh, his great thickness of cranium, which resists blows that would break the skull of an average European.