Sentence examples for layers of bone from inspiring English sources
Primitive fishes usually had thick bony plates or thick scales in several layers of bone, enamel, and related substances.
A statolith builds up rings of calcium deposits over time, he explained, and, like the rings on tree trunks, the layers of bone might help scientists determine a squid's age and growth rate.
Researchers conducted an examination of the anatomical structures beneath the pink spot and found that the layers of bone and cartilage were remarkably thinner than in other areas of the skull.
But now, researchers have used powerful x-rays to create CT-like scans of placoderm fossils with resolution high enough to identify layers of bone representing growth lines and to distinguish among several types of cells.
Superimposition of sequentially acquired experimental images and simulated structures revealed that in silico simulations deposited thin and homogeneous layers of bone whilst the experiment was characterized by local areas of strong thickening, as well as considerable volumes of bone resorption.
Although that protein didn't progress to a drug, Economides was struck by a picture he happened upon of Harry Eastlack, a FOP patient who had donated his skeleton, with its many extra layers of bone growth, to the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The hidden infrastructure — layers of boning and padding — "was studied by X-ray and by micrograph, amplified by a lot of old-fashioned measurement and observation".
The shock of impact is absorbed by a double layer of bone in the skull.
Usually, he said, the layer of bone that is removed from the skull is better replaced with an artificial one rather than the original.
The nerve that supplies the muscles of expression in the face passes through the middle-ear cavity and mastoid bone; it, too, is separated from them by only a thin layer of bone.
Knee flexion was controlled by the femoral construct, consisting of the femoral implant, a layer of bone cement and a distal femur.
