Sentence:  Eight or ten years ago , a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer <WSD>head</WSD> from the Musee Guimet , in Paris , and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains