Sentences with phrase «small brain cavity»

First discovered by anthropologist Mary Leakey, the well - preserved cranium has a small brain cavity.

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The brain is so much smaller than the skull cavity that the smallest of movements can cause the brain to strike the skull which in turn causes swelling of the brain and bleeding.

Among other things, researchers have found that the hippocampus is usually smaller in schizophrenics, whereas some of the ventricles (four cavities at the center of the brain that are filled with cerebrospinal fluid) are larger.

«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.

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.

CT on the other hand is very sensitive in evaluating the small bones in the nose, the thin bone that separates the nasal cavity from the brain, and the bulla of the middle ear.