Sentences with phrase «at skull bone»

«A look at skull bone microstructure should determine if the lesion sites actually suffered trauma,» he says.

Not exact matches

In reptiles, both today and in the past, the jaw joint lies between the articular bone at the back of the lower jaw, and the quadrate bone in the skull.

At this point, shape the dough into your choice of skulls, skeletons or round loaves with bones placed ornamentally around the top.

Engineered to cut through cartilage, bone, jowls, skulls, and other body parts, our meat saws produce high quality cuts at a fraction of the time to optimize your processing operation.

For example, the skull at birth comprises several bones that actually overlap one another during birth to help the noggin squeeze out.

For the baby, instrumental delivery can increase the short - term risks of bruising, facial injury, displacement of the skull bones, and cephalohematoma (blood clot under the scalp).24 The risk of intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain) was increased in one study by more than four times for babies born by forceps compared to spontaneous birth, 25 although two studies showed no detectable developmental differences for forceps - born children at five years old.26, 27 Another study showed that when women with an epidural had a forceps delivery, the force used by the clinician to deliver the baby was almost twice the force used when an epidural was not in place.28

During the process of labor the skull bones come together at the place of fontanels (big cartilaginous areas).

«The troops recovered quite a number of items at both the camp and the shrines which include; 10 human skulls, various human bones, 2 AK - 47 Rifles, 1 General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), 18 AK - 47 Rifle Magazines, 4 pairs of military camouflage, 5 camouflage T - Shirts, and 3 Fabrique Nationale (FN) Rifle Rifle magazines.

Ahlberg's team instead looked at a single specimen of Psarolepis, slicing through the jawbone, skull bones, and scales to get a microscopic peek at their internal structure and so identify what they were made of.

Bronze - and flint - tipped arrows were loosed at close range, piercing skulls and lodging deep into the bones of young men.

At this location, for instance, Horner and two colleagues have collected lizard skull fragments; shards of turtle shell; fish teeth, scales, and vertebrae; even a handful of dinosaur toe bones.

Ross and Paschall also looked at minimum diameter wounds in a sample of 169 skulls for which they did not have bone density information.

So Gonzalez, a geoarchaeologist, and her colleagues at Liverpool John Moores University in England radiocarbon - dated the skull and found its beauty was more than bone deep.

Rummaging through a collection of replicas of fossilized primate bones in a nearby lab, Bramble pointed out that the nuchal ligament leaves a trace — a delicate ridge — where it attaches at the base of the human skull.

«It was only through our detailed anatomical and statistical comparisons of the skull bones that we were able to distinguish between Albertavenator and Troodon,» said Thomas Cullen, a Ph.D. student of Evans at the University of Toronto and co-author of the study.

RITUAL CUT An almost 6,000 - year - old human skull from southern Russia contains a large opening at the back of the head created by cutting away bone with a sharp instrument.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

The petrous bone is a thick part of the temporal bone at the base of the skull, just behind the ear.

Those two lines of evidences led the researchers to conclude that at least some of the bone fragments likely came from the skull of a Neandertal infant.

The bones of a dinosaur parent or caretaker — whose large skull is at left — lie curled around the skeletons of many dino babies.

But there's also another part of Timurlengia's skeleton that we were able to study: the braincase, the fused bones at the back of the skull that surround the brain, ear, and sinuses.

The actions of hyenas and other carnivores that actively competed for these remains largely explain why the fossil assemblage at Aramis contains an overrepresentation of teeth, jaws, and limb bone shaft splinters (versus skulls or limb bone ends).

Fragmentary fossils of the new species — bones from a fairly complete skull, as well as some from one wing and leg — were discovered in 1983, when excavations began for a new terminal at Charleston International Airport.

The remains comprise skulls, teeth, and long bones of at least 5 individuals.

Or at least, their lineage did, according to Spanish paleoanthropologists who analyzed 17 ancient skulls from a deep bone pit in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain.

In 1924, mining blasts at the Buxton Limeworks near Taung, South Africa, exposed a cavern containing the fossil bones of many small animals — and the two - and - a-half-million-year-old skull of an australopithecine child.

The specimen itself — a nearly complete skull, two portions of the jaw, and a handful of teeth — can't be dated directly because it wasn't found in the kind of sediment that allows radioactive dating; however, Brunet was able to come up with an age by comparing the bones with those found at similar sites in Kenya and Ethiopia.

The research team, led by Axel Nimmerjahn at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, created a window on the brain of 12 such mice by shaving away a small patch of skull until only a transparent sliver of bone remained.

Geologist Silvia Gonzalez of Liverpool John Moores University in England recently analyzed four of the skulls with help from colleagues at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, where the bones are housed.

A team led by Higham and Ron Pinhasi, an archaeologist at University College Cork in Ireland, used the latest techniques to radiocarbon date the skull bones of a 1 - or 2 - year - old Neandertal infant found at the site, which has been under excavation by a Russian team since 1987.

In recent years the researchers discovered skull bones from five individuals, as well as blades found at the dig site dated to about 300,000 years ago.

We simultaneously delineate genomic regions underlying 57 morphological traits defined at the breed level, including body weight, absolute and relative length and width of long bones, absolute and proportional skull length and width, teeth characters, and a key domestication correlate — prick versus floppy ears (see Figure S1).

Both of these areas produced an abundance of well - preserved Late Cretaceous and Eocene - aged fossils, including those of birds, plesiosaurs (long - necked marine reptiles; numerous isolated bones and at least one partial skeleton), bony fishes (including several skulls and partial skeletons), sharks, whales, unidentified vertebrates, and a variety of beautifully - preserved invertebrates (e.g., ammonites, nautiloids, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans).

The remains contain an estimated 20 percent of the carnivorous dinosaur — which lived 145 - 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period — including an intact skull, vertebrae, ribs, hips and lower jaw bones.

Hundreds of bones of Caiuajara dobruskii, including at least 14 partial skulls, at a site in southern Brazil.

The special effects are some of the best ever done in this genre, so convincing that you soon cease marveling at the way Ava's metallic «bones» can be seen through the transparent flesh of her forearms, or the way that her «face» is a fixed to a silver skull.

This is arthouse exploitation at its bone - crunching, skull - cracking best.

A high, thin whisper of impending doom slowly took over at the base of my skull, painting lurid scenes of our bleached bones being strewn across the arid expanses of West Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona by coyotes.

The fontanel is the area at the top of the skull where the bone plates merge.

Chihuahua puppies exhibiting hydrocephalus usually have patchy skull plates rather than a solid bone and typically are lethargic and do not grow at the same pace as their siblings.

In addition, the infection that is eating away at the bone from below can eventually make its way into the skull and jaw bone causing a chronic painful condition caused osteomyelitis that can take several months of antibiotics to eradicate, and in some cases, can weaken the bone so much that cats can develop what is called a pathologic fracture, where the bone breaks with the slightest bit of pressure.

While puppies of most breeds are born with an opening in the bone at the top of their skull, it closes with maturity.

Osetosarcoma usually develops in the long bones or hip or shoulder bones, though the ribs, spine, skull and pelvis are at risk.

At the beginning of June, though, everyone with PlayStation Plus received Skulls of the Shogun: Bone - a-Fide Edition free.

I used the grant to make a massive wall of skulls and bones titled «The Earth Lies Screaming» (2000), which was exhibited in conjunction with a larger show of my work, titled War, at Grand Arts's space in Kansas City.

We couldn't figure out what was wrong with her and she ended up having extensive diagnostics - CAT scan, bone biopsies - but most likely what happened with this puppy is that she hit her head at daycare, just playing around, and ended up having a bone infection in her skull from just a little bit of roughhousing trauma at daycare.»

The sword features an unusual design of bones and skulls and has an axe head at the tip of the blade.