cranial cavity

collocation in English

meaningsofcranialandcavity

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cranial
adjective
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/ˈkreɪ.ni.əl/us
/ˈkreɪ.ni.əl/
of ...
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cavity
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkæv.ə.ti/us
/ˈkæv.ə.t̬i/
a hole, or an empty space between ...
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(Definition ofcranialandcavityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Endocasts are molds of thecranialcavityof fossil animals.
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The skull consists of 34 bones and contains four cavities: thecranialcavity, the orbital cavity, oral, and the nasal cavity.
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Thecranialcavityencloses and protects the brain and it supports several sense organs.
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The lesser petrosal nerve then travels anteriorly from the hiatus toward the foramen ovale, through which it exits thecranialcavity.
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It occupies only 61% of thecranialcavityand is pressed against the inside surface by cerebrospinal fluid.
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Itscranialcavitywas exceptionally small due the walls of the cranium being exceedingly thick.
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The brain occupies thecranialcavity, which is lined by the meninges and which contains cerebrospinal fluid to cushion blows.
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Less blood volume in thecranialcavityresults in less pressure compressing the brain.
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Eight fused cranial bones together form thecranialcavity: the frontal, occipital, sphenoid and ethmoid bones, and two each of the parietal and temporal bones.
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Running through it is a tube called the endolymphatic duct, which normally carries a fluid called endolymph from the inner ear to the endolymphatic sac in thecranialcavity.
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Mondino's treatment of the skull provides only inexact directions for its dissection, suggesting that thecranialcavitywas opened infrequently and with little technical skill.
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The middle cranial fossa, a depression at the base of thecranialcavityforms the thinnest part of the skull and is thus the weakest part.
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Thecranialcavityhad a volume of.
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Sherman was born with hydrocephalus, a condition that occurs when there is an abnormally large amount of cerebral fluid in thecranialcavity.
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It passes through the anterior ethmoidal opening as the anterior ethmoidal nerve and enters thecranialcavityjust above the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone.
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The body surface, body cavity and all organs contained therein, the heart and pericardium, eyes, brain and cranial cavities were examined for the presence of metacercarial cysts.
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They had moderately strong canines and multi-cusped cutting teeth supported by the strong jaw muscles to which cranial cavities were adapted.
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