pericranium

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Introduction

The periosteum of the skull.

A dense layer of connective tissue that forms the external periosteum of the calvaria.

  • firmly attached but can be stripped fairly easily from the calvaria of living persons, except where the pericranium is continuous with the fibrous tissue in the cranial sutures

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
  2. Clinically Oriented Anatomy, 4th edition, KL Moore & AF Dalley (eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA 1999.