cranial cavity

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The space or hollow within the skull.intracranial cavity

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Some have speculated that cessation of CPR decreases pressure in the chest cavity, allowing blood to return to the heart.
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The force of the two reacting spreads the foam through the chest cavity, hardening to apply pressure to any bleed sites.
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Injuries within the chest cavity may not be readily visible to medics, and are difficult to compress, King said.
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Doctors have said Miss Yousafzai is due to be readmitted in the coming weeks for reconstructive cranial surgery.
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Take a “cavity bomb,” for example: explosives hidden in rolls of fat, between butt cheeks.
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There appears a rude attempt to picture the mouth cavity and to show those interesting accessories, the teeth.
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In addition, chylous and chyloid exudates are occasionally met, particularly in the peritoneal cavity.
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In this specimen the tubular cavity of the stalactite is still open.
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The cranial capacity was apparently about one thousand, that of man being from thirteen hundred to fourteen hundred.
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Yet its cranial capacity is far above that of the highest apes, and is assimilated with that of Hottentot and Polynesian skulls.
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