In 2006, members of the Duke team published a study suggesting that with careful imaging they could map language areas before opening the skull.
James Daniels, a lead forensic mortuary technician, is carefully removing the scalp before cutting the skull with a bone saw so the brain can be examined for any signs of aneurysm, stroke or other potential causes of death.
Powell-Cotton kept the other okapi for himself, though not before lending the skull to the Natural History Museum's Ray Lankester, who was working on a detailed monograph of the mysterious okapi.
One of the most notorious perpetrators was Samir Kuntar, who in 1979 led a group of terrorists to the beach of Nahariya and shot a police officer and a civilian, Danny Haran, before smashing the skull of Haran's 4-year-old daughter, Einat.
In their study, the M4 branch larger than 1 mm was found in 93% of the specimens.[20] However, the study used a skin marking in cadaver, thus, raising a concern during actual surgery where a skin is usually flapped to one side before opening the skull, and the marking position could be changed from the previously planned position.
Remember Hamlet, hopping dementedly from grave to grave, before coming upon the skull of Yorick, once the king's jester.
Perhaps we should be thinking of foam rubberlike compressible material that absorbs the force of the collision before it reaches the skull.
Sure, they're fascinating creatures, with slinglike tongues so long they coil once around the brain before anchoring to the skull (the better to cushion a cerebellum against a concussion from all that hammering).
Dr. Baden said he suspected that Ms. Bhutto died from a bullet that left two or three tiny fragments seen on X-rays before it exited the skull through a wound that the Pakistani doctors did not notice in part because they apparently did not shave the bloodied thick scalp hair.
