Sentence examples for bone at the back from inspiring English sources

Triceratops (genus Triceratops), large quadrupedal plant-eating ceratopsian dinosaur that had a frill of bone at the back of its skull and three prominent horns.

In addition to its three conspicuous horns, which were placed above each eye and on the snout, it possessed numerous small spikes (epoccipitals) that bordered the margin of the expanded frill of bone at the back of the skull.

His first experience of warfare, at 16, had ended with an arrow piercing his left cheek as far as the bone at the back of the skull; it was removed with a hollow drill-bit, bigger than the wound, without anaesthesia.

H. erectus also has a strong torus on the occipital bone at the back of the skull and sometimes has a bony keel running up through the middle of the frontal bone and/or the sagittal suture on the top of the skull.

The capsular process, a raising of the mandibular bone at the back end of the lower incisor, is well developed.

The alisphenoid strut (a piece of bone at the back of the skull separating two foramina, or openings) is absent.

In comparison, horses that race on dirt tend to suffer with greater frequency fractures of the sesamoid bones – much smaller bones at the back of a fetlock joint, or ankle.

Dookun stresses that while flat head syndrome, in which the soft bones at the back of the head flatten under the pressure of the baby's head, can occur when a baby spends too much time on its back, it is only really a risk for babies who are never removed from their cots or who have a specific muscle-wasting syndrome.

An affinity between the amphibians and the teleost fish is the multi-folded structure of the teeth and the paired supra-occipital bones at the back of the head, neither of these features being found elsewhere in the animal kingdom.

Both have greatly enlarged domes of solid bone that sat at the back of the head above the brain, both show some extra bumps and bosses, and both even show some similarities in the microstructure of the bone.

Pass the headband over your hair so that it fits around your head, passing just under the occipital bone, which curves in at the back of your head.