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
The skull consists of 22 bones, which are divided into two categories: cranial bones and facial bones.
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
At this very time the four vertebral cranial bones recognized by Owen are the same Oken has described.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various
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