Sentences with phrase «sides of the skull»

The right side of the skull is complete and the team believes the left side is intact as well.

For example, most straight - line fractures on the crown were due to accidental falls, they reasoned, but a lot of depressed craters on the left side of the skull were most likely the work of another caveman wielding a club or primitive ax in his right hand.

As the light touch continues, the process of working with the fluids (blood, and spinal fluid to name a few) and directing them to areas that are more rigid and not as pliable as the other side of the skull.

Such movement makes the brain bump into the interior of the skull at the point of impact, as well as on the opposite side of the skull, resulting in contusions (bruises) that damage two sites in the brain, called the coup and contrecoup injuries.

Indeed, the almost fibrous red and white lines that surround the top and side of the skull create a compelling illusion that the head is electronically wired - in to some external device - a music player, perhaps.

She calls up the black - and - white images on her desktop computer and riffles through the slices, zooming from the left side of my skull to the right.

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.

A white terry - cloth headband holds two plastic squares against either side of her skull.

Further, even though a horse's face is structured differently from that of a human — an equine's eyes, for example, are placed on the sides of the skull — it can nevertheless produce some expressions strikingly similar to ours, the scientists discovered.

By the time he arrived in the operating room, a surgical team already had shaved a patient bald, secured a metal frame to her head and drilled two quarter - size holes on either side of her skull.

At birth, these fish have one eye on each side of the skull, but as adults, both eyes reside on the same side.

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.

This behaviour seems to have evolved numerous times in vertebrates, with evidence of a long evolutionary history in diapsids — a group of amniotes which developed holes in each side of the skull about 300 million years ago and from which all existing lizards, snakes and birds are descended

Artist reconstruction of Mercuriceratops gemini, a new species of horned dinosaur that had wing - like ornamentation on the sides of its skull.

Note the widely flaring zygomatic arches (the bones arching around the side of the skull to join below the eyes, forming the cheeks).

As you inhale, slowly turn the face and chin toward the right shoulder, moving as if you were pouring sand from the center of the brain into the left side of the skull; as you exhale, turn the chin and face back to center.

These include decapitations, impalements and arrows extending through both sides of their skulls.

Ears sit at the sides of the skull at the highest point and can be cropped (customary) or uncropped.

Remarkably, after having a bullet fired into the right side of its skull, the dog remained conscious and was still running around.

Viewed from above, the sides of the skull are in planes roughly parallel to those of the muzzle.

The brain can also be slammed from one side of the skull to the other as the head snaps forward, then backward.