brain case
- a variation of braincase.
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“The side of the brain case, how it looks, it’s just identical to a screamer.”
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024
The fossil has a well-preserved brain case -- the hard inner parts of the skull that record imprints and other features of the brain.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023
By comparing this feature in the jawed fish fossil with the brain case features of their precursors, the jawless fish, he and the team discovered new ways the two could be compared.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023
For years, many scientists assumed that a spongy bone between the bird's upper beak and brain case served this function — perhaps because it would almost seem cruel for nature to dictate otherwise.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2022
The face is rounded like a cat, but the skull behind the eye is very long and pear-shaped when viewed from above; in proportion to a cat's skull the brain case is a fourth longer.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
