Wide openings in the skull ( fenestrae ) reduced the weight of the head while also providing space for muscle attachment and sensory organs.

The infection may also be introduced through a skull fracture following a head trauma or surgical procedures.

Intramembranous ossification mainly occurs during formation of the flat bones of the skull but also the mandible, maxilla, and clavicles ; the bone is formed from connective tissue such as mesenchyme tissue rather than from cartilage.

They determined that it was a genuine skull from a young male leopard, but also found that the cat had not died in Britain and that the skull had been imported as part of a leopard-skin rug.

There were also cut marks on the skull indicating the flesh had been scraped off with a knife, and the skull had begun to decompose only after a recent submersion in water.

They also fought alongside Hannibal, killing ( in 216 BC ) the Roman general L. Postumius Albinus, whose skull was then turned into a sacrificial bowl.

A monster will also become angry if either player collects a skull ( the only negative item in the game ), and the monster is hit by the resulting comet crossing the screen.

Anatomically the evolution of bipedalism has been accompanied by a large number of skeletal changes, not just to the legs and pelvis, but also to the vertebral column, feet and ankles, and skull.

There is also a median lump, which is more prominent in males, at the front of the skull.

According to paleontology, the early hominids ' skull anatomy was similar to that of the gorilla and chimpanzee, great apes that also evolved in Africa, but the hominids had adopted a bipedal locomotion and freed their hands.

Sexual dimorphism is also apparent in the skull ; adult males have longer lower jaws than females, and have larger occipital crests.

The Cyclops ' origins have also been surmised to be the results of Ancient Greeks finding an elephant skull, by paleontologist Othenio Abel in 1914.

Marsh also reclassified all the previously named North American species from Pterodactylus to Pteranodon, with the larger skull, YPM 1117, referred to the new species Pteranodon longiceps.

Some patients with this form of the disorder also have hydrocephalus, in which cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the skull, or a condition called arachnoiditis, in which a covering of the spinal cord — the arachnoid membrane — is inflamed.

He also had a pronounced dolichocephalic ( elongated ) skull, although it was within normal bounds and highly unlikely to have been pathological.

*, also known as Anti-Fairies or Wisps, are flaming skull enemies able to sprout wings.

There may also be some confusion between " skull " and the Norse / Icelandic word for a drinking cup, skál.

The hybrids also tended to have strange dental, horn, and skull shapes.

Grevy's zebra also has a donkey-like skull.

They are created by an abnormal and uncontrolled cell division, usually in the brain itself, but also in lymphatic tissue, in blood vessels, in the cranial nerves, in the brain envelopes ( meninges ), skull, pituitary gland, or pineal gland.

Brain injury can be at the site of impact, but can also be at the opposite side of the skull due to a contrecoup effect ( the impact to the head can cause the brain to move within the skull, causing the brain to impact the interior of the skull opposite the head-impact ).

It is not having his baby nestled warm and fat against your breast and it is not having somebody that really gives a damn whether some tramp cracks your skull.

In cases of trauma, for example in compound skull fractures where fragments of bone are pushed into the substance of the brain, the cause of the abscess is obvious.

Lumbar puncture procedure, which is performed in many infectious disorders of the central nervous system is contraindicated in this condition ( as it is in all space-occupying lesions of the brain ) because removing a certain portion of the cerebrospinal fluid may alter the concrete intracranial pressure balances and causes the brain tissue to move across structures within the skull ( brain herniation ).

Most of the bones of the skull are flat bones, as is the sternum.

The back of the skull was cleanly cut off in a way that is commonly used to mount the head on a rug.

The facial region of skull is relatively small, with pinnae very small or lacking, and the vibrissae are well developed.

In comparing the skulls of carnivores and herbivores, it can be seen that the shearing force of the temporalis is somewhat more important to carnivores, which have more room on the braincase ( this is not unrelated to carnivoran intelligence ) and commonly develop a sagittal crest ( running from posterior to anterior on the skull ), providing yet additional room for temporalis attachment.

A hominid skull was been found by Michel Brunet in 2002, in Borkou, that is more than 7 million years old, the oldest discovered anywhere in the world ; it has been given the name Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

When attacking smaller prey, such as young lambs, the kill is made by biting the skull and spinal regions, causing massive tissue and bone damage.

In vertebrates, the brain is protected by the skull, while the spinal cord is protected by the vertebrae, and both are enclosed in the meninges.

According to this tradition, when Christ is crucified, his blood falls on Adam's skull, buried at the foot of the cross, and redeems him.

# Prevention of brain ischemia: The prevention of brain ischemia is made by decreasing the amount of CSF in the limited space inside the skull.

Diprotodon skull, clearly showing the large front teeth for which the genus is named and the dentition adapted for Browsing ( predation ) | browsing

The holotype is IVPP No. V-2776, a partial skull and skeleton.

Painted with broad bands of garish color and highly simplified forms, and employing a high viewpoint, the agonized figure is reduced to a garbed skull in the throes of an emotional crisis.

The skull from Gawis, Ethiopia, is believed to be 500, 000 – 250, 000 years old.

* Deep brain stimulation ( US manufacturer Medtronic ) consists of a computerized electrical device implanted in the chest in a manner similar to the VNS, but electrical stimulation is delivered to deep brain structures through depth electrodes implanted through the skull.

An endocast or internal mold is formed when sediments or minerals fill the internal cavity of an organism, such as the inside of a bivalve or snail or the hollow of a skull.

Many churches still display holy relics such as the bones of a saint, a scrap of cloth once worn by a holy man, or the skull of a martyr ; the Templars did the same.

In the latter work, which examines the subject of paleoanthropology, Bouts developed a teleological and orthogenetical view on a perfecting evolution, from the paleo-encephalical skull shapes of prehistoric man, which he considered still prevalent in criminals and savages, towards a higher form of mankind, thus perpetuating phrenology's problematic racializing of the human frame.

A skull crest was present but its exact form and size are still unknown.

If the impact causes the head to move, the injury may be worsened, because the brain may ricochet inside the skull causing additional impacts, or the brain may stay relatively still ( due to inertia ) but be hit by the moving skull ( both are contrecoup injuries ).

The skull of the specimen is still in the possession of the Natural History Museum in London ( to which the fossil collections of the British Museum were transferred later in the century ), but at some point, it became separated from the rest of the skeleton, the location of which is not known.

Although fish have neither an outer nor a middle ear, sound may still be transmitted to the inner ear through the bones of the skull, or by the swim bladder, parts of which often lie close by in the body.

In these cases, the stapes either is also missing or, in the absence of an eardrum, connects to the quadrate bone in the skull, although, it is presumed, it still has some ability to transmit vibrations to the inner ear.

The Soviet-perfected skull crucible is still used today, with little variation.

Her red hair was still on her skull and her shroud still wrapped around her.

He fractured his skull running into an outfield wall on one occasion ( but still made the throw back to the infield ), was temporarily paralyzed on another, and was taken off the field on a stretcher a record 11 times.

In this issue many of the remedies previously in use were omitted, although a good number were still retained, such as dogs ’ excrement, earthworms, and moss from the human skull ; the botanical names of herbal remedies were for the first time added to the official ones ; the simple distilled waters were ordered of a uniform strength ; sweetened spirits, cordials and ratafias were omitted as well as several compounds no longer used in London, although still in vogue elsewhere.

His skull is still missing, but one of his thumbs is in the possession of the Tennessee State Museum.

While some diapsids have lost either one hole ( lizards ), or both holes ( snakes ), or even have a heavily restructured skull ( modern birds ), they are still classified as diapsids based on their ancestry.

The bullet is still lodged in his skull.

Sickness is represented by a skull icon next to the pet as it sits still at the bottom of the screen, with an unhappy expression.

Marsh never accepted the challenge, and Cope's skull is reportedly still preserved at the University of Pennsylvania.

The cage and Breads ' skull are still kept in the Town Hall.

The Anglican Lichfield Cathedral, at the site of his burial, is dedicated to Chad, and St Mary, and still has a head chapel, where the skull of the saint was kept until it was lost during the Reformation.

" Sylvie kneels next to the still breathing dog when all of a sudden Ivy crushes the dog's skull with a pipe ( to put it out of its misery ).

In the Upledger method of craniosacral therapy, a ten-step protocol serves as a general guideline, which includes ( 1 ) analyzing the base ( existing ) cranial rhythm, ( 2 ) creating a still point in that rhythm at the base of the skull, ( 3 ) rocking the sacrum, ( 4 ) lengthening the spine in the lumbar-sacral region, ( 5 ) addressing the pelvic, respiratory and thoracic diaphragms, ( 6 ) releasing the hyoid bone in the throat, and ( 7-10 ) addressing each one of the cranial bones.

The find helped corroborate the 1924 discovery of the juvenile Australopithecus africanus skull, " Taung Child ", by Raymond Dart, at Taung in the North West Province of South Africa, where excavations still continue.