cranial bones
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But one twin's diagnosis with acrania — a rare, fatal congenital disorder characterized by the full or partial absence of cranial bones — sent Brandt's world into a grief-stricken tailspin.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025
The eight cranial bones are the frontal bone, two parietal bones, two temporal bones, occipital bone, sphenoid bone, and the ethmoid bone.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Schultze immediately realized its importance: similarities in the arrangement and shape of the cranial bones preserved in this fossil and Westoll's skull roof showed they belonged to the same species.
From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2020
The work suggests declining temperatures trigger shrews to literally break down their cranial bones and warm weather cues them to rebuild.
From Scientific American • Oct. 23, 2017
Ossification proceeds rapidly from the maxillaries medially to the unossified ethmoid, which is the last of the cranial bones to appear.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by Duellman, William E.
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