A crack below the eye socket, which the British researchers had interpreted as a healed bone scar, probably formed during cremation, according to Dr. Bartsiokas.
M. levator veli palatine—In most mammals, this muscle origin surrounds the carotid canal on the medial, anterior, and lateral surfaces as a crescentric temporal bone scar.
Paleopathologists like Dr. Cook have for years analyzed skeletons for the bone scars from lesions produced by treponemal diseases, except for the mild form called pinta.
Dr. Kappelman said in a telephone interview that the lesions near the base of the cranium were "dead ringers" for bone scars seen in modern specimens as a result of Leptomeningitis tuberculosa, the bacterium that causes a fatal disease of the brain not as common as the one that attacks the lungs.
FB must be distinguished from hyper-echoic body tissue such as ossified cartilage sesamoid bones, scar tissue, gas bubble, and intermuscular fascia.
Note that all of the examples above will usually also give you other injuries like broken bones, scars, lacerations, and so on.
The ECB statement read: "England and Yorkshire bowler Tim Bresnan has undergone an uncomplicated operation on his right elbow to remove extra bone and scar tissue.
"This was minor surgery to remove a bone spur and scar tissue," General Manager George McPhee said.
Her nose, broken more than 14 times, had settled into a crooked distortion, humped where the bone had scarred.
By the time their 3,000-mile 3,000-mile train from California to Brooklyn ended in their mother's arrest and indictment for assaulting them, their gouged and lacerated faces, broken bones and scar tissue spoke louder than the whispered suspicions and worried silence of their closest family members.
It has been suggested that because tendons, muscles, bones and scar tissues are of varied densities, differential expansions and contractions due to atmospheric changes results in pain at sites of microtrauma [ 6, 8].
