Sentences with phrase «cranial cavities»

Some would go as far to say that they produce little more than kiddie games, and who wants to control a cutesy pink marshmallow when you can hollow cranial cavities in the latest installment of CoD?

«By increasing the volume of blood in the cranial cavity, there's less room for the brain to move which reduces the overall slosh effect which we believe reduces mTBI.

Now, thanks to high - resolution X-ray imaging, researchers have peered inside its cranial cavity and created a three - dimensional computer model of what the animal's brain likely looked like.

Because the brain does not fill the cranial cavity, the brain size is smaller than the cranial capacity, but the latter value is, obviously, the only one that can be determined from a skull.

I have in general adopted the familiar «hardware - versus - software» analogy, using «brain» to refer to the physical structure within the cranial cavity and «mind» to denote the range of operations this physical structure can perform.

The morphometry of the skull has been examined in detail and the development of clinical signs and syringomyelia has been correlated to reduced caudal fossa to cranial cavity volume ratios and stenosis of the jugular foramen respectively.

A dog with hydrocephalus will have many soft spots in the skull because the additional fluid in the cranial cavity keeps the skull plates from fusing.

As such, meningiomas are not strictly brain tumors, but tend to be grouped with them because they arise within the cranial cavity and compress or invade the brain.

Usually they do not cause any other neurologic signs and remain outside the actual cranial cavity.

They are difficult to access, because of the thick bone surrounding them, and their location close to the floor of the cranial cavity, and the brainstem does not have much redundancy of function so damaging it could be fatal.

We found that using diameter of the occipital lobe circle (F - diameter) allowed an assessment of the height of the cranial cavity even if only the occipital lobes are present.

One can appreciate the increased height of the rostral cranial cavity (greater diameter of the occipital lobe circle) and decreased in size of angles 2 and 5 (yellow) in compensation for shortening of the entire cranial base and increased proximity of the atlas to the occiput.

As a compensatory change, there appears to be an increased height of the rostral cranial cavity with lengthening of the dorsal cranial vault and considerable reorganization of the brain parenchyma including ventral deviation of the olfactory bulbs and rostral invagination of the cerebellum under the occipital lobes.

This patient has the potential of developing a very serious problem, usually an expanding haematoma in the cranial cavity.

Particularly those AVM's located within the brain which can cause significant damage when they rupture and cause bleeding within the cranial cavity.

Not exact matches

The cause is usually an irritation of the trigeminal nerve, the cranial nerve responsible for the sensory innervation of the facial area, parts of the scalp, and the oral cavity.

But, this term is usually used for the paranasal sinuses, for the air cavities in the skull i.e. cranial bones, particularly for those that are found in the nose.

Upon entering the abdominal cavity, the falciform fat may be large and difficult to retract during examination of the cranial abdomen.

Traumatic accidents such as your dog being hit by a car; caught in a bad dog fight with puncture wounds penetrating a body cavity; any physical trauma causing massive bleeding, wounds to organs, fractured bones or cranial trauma.