Sentences with phrase «skull bones fuse»

Craniosynostosis happens when a child's skull bones fuse together before they're supposed to (normally, around age 4).

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Amusingly, the researchers who discovered an essential protein for the fusing of skull bones named it noggin.

This can happen because when fetus develops the bones of the skull are flexible and sutures are not fused.

Though it is unlikely that any bones would break, there might be injuries to the head, especially if it is a younger infant whose skull hasn't yet fused all the way.

The bones of the skull don't fuse completely until your baby is almost 2 years old, although the rear ones close much earlier than the front ones.

Don't worry — that's what your baby's head is supposed to do in order for it to fit through the birth canal, and the reason the skull bones are not fused.

Despite the hardening of the skeleton, the bones located within their skull have yet to be fused together and will remain this way until early adulthood.

But strangely for an animal with a tougher bite than a great white shark, some of the bones that make up a T. rex skull are not fused and would only have been held together by connective tissue.

So Baud's team aimed for a soft spot: the anterior fontanelle, a membrane - covered gap between the bones of an infant's skull, which hardens as the bones fuse around age 2.

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.

Open fontanel: a condition where the suture lines between bones of the skull do not fuse together properly.

CAT scan and MIR examinations are the best way to do that although an ultrasound examination can be helpful when the bones of the skull have not yet fused.

In one study, the occipital bones showed a resorbtive pattern of bone around the cerebellar hemispheres in adults and in children [44], suggesting that bone remodelling continues long after skull sutures have fused.

Babies have more bones than adults; as they age, several bones (such as the plates in the skull) fuse together to become one single bone.