skull bone

collocation in English

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skull
noun[C]
uk
/skʌl/us
/skʌl/
the bones of the head that surround the brain and give the head ...
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bone
noun[C or U]
uk
/bəʊn/us
/boʊn/
any of the hard parts inside a human or animal that make up ...
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(Definition ofskullandbonefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The species differ in skull proportions, skull punctuation andskullbonepatterns.
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A trephine is an instrument used for cutting out a round piece ofskullbone.
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They generally originate from the surface of theskullbone(rarely the fascia), and insert on the skin of the face.
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The mastoidskullbonecontains a conspicuous opening, as in most oryzomyines.
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He was diagnosed with a subdural hemorrhage for which a section of theskullbonewas removed to allow the brain to swell without compressing it.
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When the child'sskullboneis sufficiently thick, a titanium post can be surgically embedded into the skull with a small abutment exposed outside the skin.
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But mammals have a different jaw joint, composed only of the dentary (the lower jaw bone, which carries the teeth) and the squamosal (another smallskullbone).
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But mammals have a different jaw joint, composed only of the dentary (the lower jaw bone which carries the teeth) and the squamosal (another smallskullbone).
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The internal organ is permitted to continue its evolution and transformations up until the very last day of life by means of the never-changing flexibility of theskullbone.
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Later work indicated that the differences were probably not enough to justify the second species, and that some of the perceived differences were due to a misorientedskullbone.
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Major body changes occur in metamorphosis, including the reshaping and strengthening of skull bones, the thickening of postcranial bones, and an increase in body size.
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They were characterized by stocky hindlimbs and extensive ornamentation of the skull bones, with grooves and pits.
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Knowledge of the skeletal anatomy is limited, as only limb and partial pelvis and skull bones have been recovered to date.
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The borders between lobes lie beneath the sutures that link the skull bones together.
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Sutures between the skull bones are mostly fused.
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Their initial research indicated that the skull bones were fused, and that it therefore represented an adult specimen.
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It is known from subfossil skull bones and isolated molars found in several sites during field work that started in 2001.
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If the skull bones are not completely ossified when the hydrocephalus occurs, the pressure may also severely enlarge the head.
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About 70% of the trunk bones were preserved, and about 50% of the skull bones.
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The skull bones of the holotype are slightly dislocated due to transportation.
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