Sentence examples for ridge of bone from inspiring English sources

These coyotes also sported bigger chewing muscles and a more prominent sagittal crest, the ridge of bone at the top of the skull to which these muscles attach.

Note the more massive cheekbones and the sagittal crest (a ridge of bone on the braincase from which large chewing muscles arise) in P. robustus.

The Palauan bones also have traits usually considered primitive for our species, including a reduced chin, large teeth, a ridge of bone at the eyebrow, and small orbits, says Berger.

Its enlarged, deep-rooted canine teeth, the diastema (space) between its canine teeth and second incisors, and its sagittal crest (ridge of bone running lengthwise down the top of the skull) suggest that the specimen was a male.

Some adapiforms were sexually dimorphic, with males bearing a larger sagittal crest (a ridge of bone on the top of the skull to which jaw muscles attach) and canine teeth.

The skull also bore a low, broad sagittal crest (a ridge of bone on the top of the skull to which jaw muscles attach) and robust but smaller nuchal crests (ridges of bone on the back of the skull to which neck muscles attach).

The "ridge of bones" will look like white dots running down the fillet.

The skull has prominent crests (ridges of bone).

"It's a cool effect, when you have that ridge of the bone, and you have tissue that's sort of stringy and hanging on.

Look and feel for a ridge of white bones running down the fillet.

The posterior superior alveolar nerve and vessels usually pass through the maxillary sinus, and the average distance from the nerve to the crestal ridge of the alveolar bone is 16.9 mm [6 8].