Sentences with phrase «back of the skull»

Brachycepahly is a type of Plagiocephaly in which there is generalized flattening across the whole back of the skull.

He and Glencross found dozens of skulls with similar wounds, all showing a consistent pattern of injury to the top back of the skull.

My first experience with death was when I in a car accident the car flipped in the air three times and then four more times down a hill i had a piece of glass lodged in the back of my skull scars down my arms and stomach and apparently flatlined three times.

Like folk songs their wings wheel and hover, careless As falcons, I am their anxious scribe, listening myself into their coarse cries, storing the separate Notes in small black spaces at the back of my skull, God, if I were a bird I think I would stop worrying!

There were tumors on the back of her skull and on an upper vertebra.

That man hurt you for no reason at all, either take a giant pile of his money or put a slug in the back of his skull.

If your child is always on their back, the back of their skull is always touching the floor, which can lead to developing flat spots on the back of the head.

Pressure is pressure and the softer the surface, the less able your baby is to move his own head to vary the pressures on the back of his skull.

Move toys to the perimeter of your gym to encourage your baby to turn his head in different directions and reduce the sustained pressure across the back of his skull.

Thanks to the (very effective) Back To Sleep / Safe To Sleep recommendations for SIDS reduction, your baby is very likely spending the majority of every 24 hours with pressure on the back of his skull.

A «flat spot» on baby's head could be only on one side of the back of the skull.

If infants are placed on the back for a long time in the same position, it could lead to «positional plagiocephaly», a case of flattened or misshapen head and «brachycephaly», the flattening of the back of the skull.

Too much time in the swings can also lead to skull deformities and other problems in the future since the baby rests on the back of the skull most of the time.

A man whose eyes — two spots of fire — had no more motion than if they had been connected with the back of his skull by screws driven through them, and riveted and bolted outside among his gray hair.

The large spermaceti organ (in yellow, near the top), both magnifies and focuses the sounds, which bounce off the back of the skull (in white), then down and out the front of the head.

«Mercuriceratops took a unique evolutionary path that shaped the large frill on the back of its skull into protruding wings like the decorative fins on classic 1950s cars.

In his youth he had survived a glancing sword blow that fractured the back of his skull.

Test subjects in a UW experiment navigated simple mazes based solely on inputs delivered to their brains by a magnetic coil placed at the back of the skull, demonstrating how humans can interact with virtual realities via direct brain stimulation.

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.

They again used a mechanical piston, but this time landed a broad blow to the back of the skull.

Her skull reveals numerous cuts on the face, chops to the forehead and back of the skull, and penetrating knife wounds with the «clear intent» to remove the brain.

One cranium has a huge brain volume of 1800 cubic centimeters — on the upper end for both Neandertals and moderns — plus a Neandertal - like hollow in a bone on the back of its skull.

Release the inner ears to the back of the skull (yet keep them alert to the sound of the breath).

Slowly begin to shift your hips back until they align with the back of your skull; and simultaneously lower your legs until they are parallel with the floor, making an inverted «L» shape.

Think of these muscles as a series of elastic bands — some long, some short — that connect the back of your skull, spinal vertebrae, rib cage, sacrum, and hipbones to one another.

In the depth of the twist, and after releasing the pose, observe how delicious it is to let your brain relax into the back of your skull, to let yourself be led instead of forcefully leading.

Spread the back of your skull and neck like a cobra hood.

Use the hot knife to cut small holes in the eye sockets and a hole in the back of the skull so that you can insert the lights.

All the big, goofy glasses and constant needle drops are certainly distracting, but it's difficult to ever turn down a new performance from Joaquin Phoenix (who already blew our brains out the back of our skulls in You Were Never Really Here this year).

Diana might not settle in the back of your skull, but she is great when it comes to the more immediate panic attacks.

It's like being picked up and swept away by a silent force, a tidal wave perhaps, and you feel your eyeballs squeeze against their sockets and your brain press against the back of your skull.

The pulsing pain at the back of his skull threatened to end him, but he couldn't take his eyes off Dr. Washington's greatest achievement.

Women wore handkerchiefs tied off at the backs of their skulls and carried mock leather snap purses for their cigarettes.

They drilled away the top of Leah's first vertebra and a small area of the back of her skull, necessary to open that area and decompress the spinal cord.

She was diagnosed with an atlanto - occipital luxation (dislocation of the skull from the spine) and fractures of the first vertebra and the back of the skull.

It widens from the back of the skull to where it joins the shoulders.

The medium length neck is heavy and slightly arched, tapering from shoulders to back of skull.

Unfortunately, the shape and size of the back of their skull has caused a serious problem to develop.

However, the most common cause is the cerebellum within the foramen magnum (i.e. the back of the brain poking though the hole at the back of the skull).

The length of the muzzle is approximately the same as the length from the back of the skull (occiput) to the stop.

The cerebellum is pushed (herniated) out the skull because there is not enough space since the volume of the back of the skull (occipital bone) is too small.

Both have a black mask, black ears, and a fine black line (trace) from the back of the skull (occiput) to the tail.

Neck: Heavy, slightly arched, tapering from shoulders to back of skull.

The surgical treatment consists of a routine surgical procedure to remove excess bone associated with the back of the skull.

Decompression or widening of the back of the skull is believed to impove CSF flow and lessen the impact on the descending cerebellar vermis.

Re-shaping the back of the skull, or cranioplasty, in addition to FMD is recommended at The Canine Chiari Institute at LIVS to decrease the frequency of scar tissue formation in the operative site after surgery.