How To Use Braincase In A Sentence
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The image was so detailed that you could even make out the holes where blood vessels traveled from the animal's braincase.
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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.
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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.
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Their braincases were big, but long and low, with a large browridge instead of the domed forehead of modern humans.
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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.
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In the adults of most vertebrates, the braincase is largely fused into a single solid mass.
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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.
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The outer wall of the braincase becomes the alisphenoid and the dermal skull bones.
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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.
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The bulk of the muscle mass was located in an adductor chamber between the braincase and the dermal skull bones.
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During jaw retraction, the neck was straightened, thereby pushing the braincase anteriorly as the lower jaw was pulling the prey caudally.
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Its teeth are noticably larger than the wolves of today, and it also had proportionately, a slightly smaller braincase.
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Prior to this study, the only acanthodian whose braincase has been studied is the genus Acanthodes, which is a group that appears late in acanthodian history, Brazeau explained.
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According to Abbate and his team, the skull's long ovoid braincase, wide cheekbones, and massive browridge resemble African H. erectus and H. ergaster.
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Compared to wolves, domestic dogs are smaller and have proportionally smaller teeth, a wider palate, broader braincase and higher frontals, and smaller, less rounded auditory bullae.
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This reduces the importance of the stapes in supporting the braincase ventrally.
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The placoderms and chondrichthyans both show at least some capsular protuberance of the braincase, but the braincase is a single, undivided mass, whether or not ossified.
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In contrast with the gorgonopsians, the jaw musculature in early therocephalians expanded dorsally over the braincase, leaving only a narrow sagittal crest between the adductor chambers.
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Its braincase was shattered, the top of it missing.
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The fourth shot struck the skull above the occipital condyle and entered the braincase; it likely caused instantaneous loss of consciousness and death due to massive brain trauma.
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I have a broken left wrist, broken left arm, and again rib damage, but my brain, braincase, and spine are all good.
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The otic capsule became somewhat separated from the rest of the braincase as a pair of petrosals.
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The skulls of chinchilla rats have long and narrow rostra, a rounded braincase, enlarged bullae, and delicate zygomatic arches.
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The skull of the fennec fox is relatively short, broad over the braincase and tapers sharply toward the rostrum, forming a slender and narrow muzzle.
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The outer wall of the braincase becomes the alisphenoid and the dermal skull bones.
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The crista prootica is a ridge or ledge of the prootic which runs antero-posteriorly along the side of the braincase above the otic capsule.
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In bony vertebrates, endochondral bones form from centers of ossification in the chondrocranium, although much of the braincase often remains cartilage.
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Scholars have remarked on the unusualness of the cranium, citing a mix of H. erectus traits, such as a thick cranial bone and a pronounced browridge, and features commonly observed in more recent humans, such as a high forehead, and rounded braincase.
Case of the Curious Cranium
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The placoderms and chondrichthyans both show at least some capsular protuberance of the braincase, but the braincase is a single, undivided mass, whether or not ossified.
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Five fossil human skulls show how the shape of the face and braincase of early humans changed over the past 2.5 million years. (from left to right: Australopithecus africanus, 2.5 million years old; Homo rudolfensis, 1.9 million years old; Homo erectus, ~ 1 million years old; Homo heidelbergensis, ~350,000 years old; Homo sapiens, ~ 4,800 years old)
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