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<anatomy> One of the bones that makes up the vault of the skull (in humans these are the frontal, 2 parietals, occipital and 2 temporals).
<cell culture> Calvaria are often used in organ culture to investigate bone catabolism or synthesis.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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