Sentences with phrase «brain cavity»

"Brain cavity" refers to the hollow space inside the skull where the brain is located. It is the area that holds and protects the brain. Full definition
First discovered by anthropologist Mary Leakey, the well - preserved cranium has a small brain cavity.
Although the find was remarkable, it wasn't until this year that a team led by French paleoanthropologist Michel Brunet used CT scans to create a virtual model of the skull, revealing precise measurements of the size of the brain cavity and information about the angle at which the spinal cord exits the brain.
Those who do not die, often develop hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluids in the brain cavities that can cause head deformation and cognitive deficits.
«Researchers will spend the majority of their life examining a very small piece of an entire specimen, say the inner ear or the interior of the brain cavity, looking for morphological differences.
The researchers used sensitive 3D X-ray imaging to look inside the skull, and check out the brain cavity, inner ears and the ape's yet to emerge adult teeth.
Fluid in her brain cavities has built up to dangerous levels.
Initial viewing of the computed tomography (CT) slices showed preservation of un-erupted teeth, the brain cavity, internal structure in some bones, sinus cavities, pathways of some nerves and blood vessels, and other anatomical structures.
The team initially prepared the IPS cells in the lab and then injected them into the brain cavities of a developing mouse in the womb.
Northwestern University scientists and students are working to unravel some of her mysteries, including how her body was prepared 1,900 years ago in Egypt, what items she may have been buried with, the quality of her bones and what material is present in her brain cavity.
We have confirmed that the shards in the brain cavity are likely solidified pitch, not a crystalline material.»
Even if you get most of the brain tumour out it comes back again, so we were wondering if you could leave something in the brain cavity that would help target chemotherapy precisely to the tumour to destroy the remaining tumour cells responsible for the disease coming back.
The Cerebral brain, also called the Neo-cortex is about 1 and half to 2 and half million years old and it occupies the majority of the brain cavity.
Or an indentation can occur with bone pushing into the brain cavity.
Compound fractures are any breaks that involve the outside environment making contact with the brain cavity.
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