The phrase "a brain case" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing anatomy, biology, or even metaphorically to refer to someone's mental capacity or thought processes.
Example: "The scientist carefully examined the brain case of the specimen to understand its evolutionary adaptations."
Alternatives: "skull" or "cranium".
ReprintsThe crucial points about the new specimen are that it has a small brain case but a large face, and it appears, from other bones, that the individual in question was big.
"My guess as to why we retained head hair is for protection — you wouldn't want the sun shining down on a naked brain case".
The extinct group from which all these descended is called the Mammaliaformes, members of which lacked several mammalian traits, including a large brain case relative to its body.
Bakker resurrected D. laticeps in 1986, although others note that the material is non-diagnostic and referable to Stegosaurus sp. Stegosaurus duplex, meaning "two plexus roof lizard" (in allusion to the greatly enlarged neural canal of the sacrum which Marsh characterized as a "posterior brain case"), is probably the same as S. armatus.
Some aspects of the central nervous system are accessible to palaeontological investigation because it has distinct osteological correlates, such as an ossified brain case and the neural canal of the vertebrae.
We further found a clear, overall allometric relationship between skull size and shape, larger skulls having a relatively smaller brain case and a larger, more robust facial cranium than smaller ones.
Early birds that evolved in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous show other paedomorphic traits, such as reduction in some digits; a small body size; retention of a number of unfused bones; a gracile, elongate skull; large orbit; and a relatively large brain case.
If this didn't hook them, he thought one Wednesday morning, admiring the cast of a T. rex brain case he set on one of the classroom's long, black laboratory tables, nothing would.
Eric Packer (a last name which brought to mind The Jungle) possesses an expansive (perhaps appropriately) Frankenstein-ish brain case, with a large forehead (a recurring DeLilo trait, in both senses of the word, that is to say an occasional characteristic in his work and more frequently, on his own visage) that pushes high enough for silent film roles.
This classification was bolstered in 2005 by the discovery of a well-preserved Deinosuchus brain case from the Blufftown Formation of Alabama, which shows some features reminiscent of those in the modern American alligator, Deinosuchus however, was not a direct ancestor of modern alligators.
