The phrase "abnormal skulls" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to medical, anthropological, or biological discussions where variations in skull shape or structure are being described.
Example: "The study focused on the prevalence of abnormal skulls in certain populations, highlighting the genetic factors involved."
Alternatives: "irregular skulls" or "atypical skulls".
Yet most scientists accept their authenticity – with the exception of the late Indonesian palaeoanthropologist Teuku Jacob, who claimed the remains were those of a modern human with an abnormal skull.
An abnormal skull and a 1940's medical specimen with labels.
Common phenotypes include an abnormal skull shape, inferior brachygnatia (shortened mandible) and a protruding tongue, features also observed with the calves homozygous for the CLCN7 mutation.
Further investigations revealed macrocephaly with patent and abnormal skull sutures, delayed tooth eruption and bone age, disproportionate short stature, and epiphyseal dysgenesis with delayed mineralization of secondary ossification centers.
This fusion leads to high intracranial pressure and abnormal skull and facial shapes presumably resulting from limited growth at fused craniofacial sutures with compensating overgrowth at nonfused cranial sutures [ 1– 5].
Other features typical for this condition described in human and mouse were also noticed in calves, including abnormal skull shape, small body size and visual deficiency or blindness due to retinal degeneration (listed in supplementary material Table S1).
While we focused our work on brain applications using subjects who do not present unusual or highly abnormal skull anatomies, further experiments are required to validate the method on subjects with pathologies affecting regions critical for attenuation correction, such as the skull, and in other regions of the body.
In this study, by combining medium-density SNP arrays and whole-genome sequencing (WGS) we identified a missense mutation in CLCN7 as responsible for a symptomology in newborn BBCB calves that encompasses abnormal skull formation and often gingival hamartomas and stillbirth.
Any abnormal growth within the skull creates a special problem because it is in a confined space and will press on normal brain tissue and will therefore interfere with the functions of the body controlled by the affected parts.
Loud noises can cause a strange type of vertigo through an abnormal hole within the skull, scientists have found.
