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braincase

NOUN
  1. the part of the skull that encloses the brain

How To Use braincase In A Sentence

  • The image was so detailed that you could even make out the holes where blood vessels traveled from the animal's braincase. The Coolest Dude Alive
  • Watching a forensic pathologist pop the braincase on a cadaver is a little disturbing, but it’s not so bad after you see it done once or twice. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Does the sight of actual surgery freak you out?
  • The epipterygoid is a thin, roughly rectangular sheet of bone that rises from the dorsal surface of the palatal ramus of the palatoquadrate and is tightly appressed to the lateral wall of the braincase.
  • Their braincases were big, but long and low, with a large browridge instead of the domed forehead of modern humans. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gregory interpreted Phlegethonia as fossorial, based upon the highly ossified braincase, forward position of the jaws, large round stapedial footplate, and low neural spines, which it has in common with amphisbaenids.
  • In the adults of most vertebrates, the braincase is largely fused into a single solid mass.
  • As they both knelt down next to Muthr, Eva could see that more of the thick liquid had run out of the braincase, soaking into the sand all around her. The Search For WondLa
  • The outer wall of the braincase becomes the alisphenoid and the dermal skull bones.
  • The Australopithecenes and other prehumans had relatively large faces in proportion to the size of their heads, whereas modern humans have proportionally smaller faces and larger braincases filled with larger brains.
  • The bulk of the muscle mass was located in an adductor chamber between the braincase and the dermal skull bones.
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