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cranial nerve - any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem. 1  nerve, nervus - any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body. 2  first cranial nerve, nervii olfactorii, olfactory nerve - a collective term for numerous olfactory filaments in the nasal mucosa.
Noun. 1. cranium-the part of the skull that encloses the brain. braincase, brainpan. asterion-the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture.