neurocranium in a sentence
Examples
- In the neurocranium these are the occipital bone, two temporal bones, two parietal bones, the ethmoid and frontal bones.
- The neurocranium had a narrow suborbital shelf, a broad supraorbital shelf, a short otico-occipital division, large orbits,
- Some textbooks make a strict distinction between bones of the neurocranium and viscerocranium, based on the embryological origins of the bones.
- Below the neurocranium is a complex of openings ( foramina ) and bones, including the foramen magnum which houses the neural spine.
- Circumnarial skin folds are present, but the rostral process of the neurocranium ( braincase ) is absent, although a precerebral fossa is present.
- They proposed ( as first articulated by Biegert in 1957 ) that during infancy the neurocranium extensively overlaps the orbit, a condition that prohibits brow ridge development.
- Laterally, they are enclosed by an opercular fold and are found in the space beneath the lateral part of the head shield, extending medially underneath the neurocranium.
- This can be further complicated with a possible Arnold-Chiari malformation, which can partially obstruct the flow of cerebro-spinal fluid from the neurocranium to the spinal cord.
- These bones were associated with three whole eggs ( USNM 336564 ) and an avian neurocranium ( USNM 361415 ) which may belong to " paracathartes " or to a possible phorusrhacid.
- Weindenreich ( 1941 ) and Biegert ( 1957, 1963 ) argued that the supraorbital region can best be understood as a product of the orientation of its two components, the face and the neurocranium.