Sentences with phrase «of 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.

In 97 - million - year - old freshwater sediments in eastern Morocco, researchers discovered new Spinosaurus fossils, including parts of the skull, vertebral column, pelvis, and limb bones.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

You may also have a crest, but just on the back part of the skull and very low.

«We could see the entirety of the skull.

The animation shows the inconspicuous tubercles in sunlight, the fluorescent pattern under UV light, and the underlying bone tubercles, which are based on a micro-CT model of the skull.

The oldest whale, the 52 - million - year - old Pakicetus, is known only from teeth and parts of its skull.

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

Moreover, the front of its skull — long, curved downward, and flared at the end — is unique among sloths but quite similar to that of manatees, which use the snout for rooting out marine grasses and seaweeds.

The specimen in this photo is preserved laying on its back, so that the inside surfaces of the bones of the skull roof are visible.

Besides fossil bones of the skull and mandibles, the rock containing the skeleton showed perfect casts of the whale baleen.

Three - dimensional analysis, virtual surgical planning, and computer - aided design and manufacturing techniques are leading to new and refined approaches to reconstructive surgery of the skull, face, and jaw, according to a special topic article.

The researchers, from North Carolina State (NC State) University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, both in Raleigh, say the newly analyzed fossil — parts of a skull, spine, and upper forelimb found in central North Carolina — represents one of the earliest examples of crocodylomorphs, a group of crocodilelike animals who ruled Earth in the Late Triassic.

«Tumors located at the base of the skull are particularly challenging to treat due to the location of delicate anatomic structures and critical blood vessels,» said neurosurgeon Clark C. Chen, MD, PhD, UC San Diego Health System.

They show some distinctive characteristics, such as a digastric fossa, a well - formed groove on both sides of the skull that is found in some other populations.

So far, the scientists can see the right side of the skull — from base to snout, including teeth — and they think it's likely the left side, now trapped in rock, is intact too.

«The conventional approach to excising these tumors involves long skin incisions and removal of a large piece of skull.

Inspecting the fragments of skull, jaw and teeth more closely, they realized they had a tyrant on their hands.

To try to understand the reason for the comparatively weak bite, Rayfield created a computer model of the skull of «Big Al», an allosaur fossil from Wyoming.

The first analyses of skull data from the most recently discovered species of early human suggest that its brain was surprising sophisticated

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.

Now an analysis of tens of thousands of skull measurements provides some new data to stew over.

In fact, it may be the gateway model for cancer is the good way to think about it; like, first of all, maybe you're born with a genetic predisposition, then you have exposure 1, then you have exposure 2, and then bam — exposure 3, the cancer starts, or the offspring are going to have a lower circumference of the skull and so on.

Further, the wound would have been much more damaging had the bullet ricocheted off the inside of her skull or if it had remained lodged in her brain matter where it could «migrate around» and cause additional harm, Black says.

This means that when we swivel our eyeballs sideways, we have a lateral view of the world that is unimpeded by the bones of the skull, unlike other apes.

For example, our chewing muscles are smaller than those of our distant ancestors, who had to chew on harder, uncooked food, he says, which has affected the shape of our skull.

This is the most ancient proof of social care of the handicapped,» says Ana Gracia, a paleoanthropologist based in Madrid, who published an analysis of the skull in March in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The procedure, which has become popular in the past decade or so, especially in the context of battlefield brain injuries, entails the removal of a portion of the skull to allow room for the brain to swell.

The new remains — six teeth, a fragment of jawbone and a tiny piece of skull — don't settle the issue, but Yousuke Kaifu at Tokyo's National Museum of Nature and Science and his colleagues think they back the shrunken H. erectus theory.

Likewise, the shape of the skull vault, which surrounds the brain, and chin anatomy were both outside the range seen in humans, with or without Down syndrome.

But between the two most complete specimens yet found, he and Rainer Schoch, a paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany, have put together a full skeleton and most of a skull.

Because the brain being encased in that fluid, and when it hits up against the inside of the skull, that's when you sustain damage.

In addition to measuring individual bones, the scientists used CT scanning to reconstruct the brain and view internal structures of the skull, as well as assessing the 3 - dimensional (3D) shape of the skull.

They came back with the thigh bone plus photos of a skull poking out of the dirt in a second chamber of the cave system.

His strong jaw, flat molars, and bony spine on top of the skull led paleontologists to believe he ate nuts and seeds, earning him the nickname Nutcracker Man.

Scientists have an incomplete understanding of what happens when a child's brain slams up against the inside of the skull during a blow to the head and how this affects neurological development.

But other features, such as the shape of its skull and the shape and placement of its nostrils, hint that some aspects of the creature were indeed becoming more adapted to an aquatic lifestyle.

To align the instrument with the computer image of the skull, specific anatomical reference points on the patient's face, such as the corner of the mouth, are aligned to corresponding points on the three - dimensional image.

Some scientists argued, though, based on the shape of his skull, that he was more closely related to native Polynesians or a native Japanese group called the Ainu.

«The roof of the skull has a raised lip, an indication of a horn.

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

It turns out that brain regions that do the same job in monkeys and humans aren't always found in the same part of the skull.

Example of a skull exhibiting cribra orbitalia — note the porous areas in the top of the eye sockets.

Evidence of skull surgery on humans, whether for medical or ritual reasons, goes back about 11,000 years (SN: 5/28/16, p. 12).

We were lucky to have a critical piece of the skull that allowed us to distinguish Albertaventaor as a new species.»

It was not the first, or even the second, fossil of this creature found in Alaska, but I could already see parts of this skull that were not preserved on the other specimens.

Many local doctors were concerned that the procedure could force the brain out of the hole at the base of the skull because of the potential pressure difference it could cause.

These include shifts in the proportions of its skull and the shape of its upper jawbone, which over time began to curve pronouncedly downward and presumably developed on its exterior a beak.

~ 77.8 million years ago), which possesses a flat paddle - shaped nasal crest projecting back over the top of its skull.

(A) A Tiling image of skull bone tissues.