Sentence examples for plates of bone from inspiring English sources

The brain cavity lies just above and behind the middle ear and mastoid air spaces, separated from them only by thin plates of bone.

Unlike the scales of the cartilaginous fishes, those of bony fishes, when present, grow throughout life and are made up of thin, overlapping plates of bone.

Many of the earliest four-legged creatures that ventured onto land were heavily armored beasts, sporting plates of bone beneath their skin.

As such, almost 580 long bones were analyzed for spatial orientation, and almost 100 plates of bone levels were documented at every 10 cm of depth (mapped, photographed and topographed).

The most obvious feature of Ankylosaurus is its armor, consisting of massive knobs and plates of bone, known as osteoderms or scutes, embedded in the skin.

Although the zygomatic plates (plates of bone at the side of the skull) are variable, their size is generally intermediate for the Akodon boliviensis group and their front margin ranges from straight to a little concave.

They explained that young athletes are more prone to certain injuries, especially stress fractures; tendinitis; a degenerative condition called osteochondrosis; and damage to the growth plates of bones that can stunt them for life.

4 Growth in childhood is regulated by growth hormone (GH), secreted from the pituitary, which stimulates the production of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) by the liver and growth plates of bones.

Scorpaeniform (order Scorpaeniformes), also called mail-cheeked fish, any one of a group of bony fishes that are characterized by a plate of bone running across each cheek.

The massive ilium formed a deep vertical plate of bone to which the muscles of the pelvis, hind leg, and tail were attached.

However the environment Protoceratops lived in contained multiple Tyrannosaurus-sized carnivores and a hollow plate of bone about 50 cm long would probably not do much to deter such potential predators.