To ensure that the BMD value in skull represented the mineral status of the skeletal system in general, we compared BMD values in femur and three lumbar vertebrae with skull in a subsample.
These results justified the use of BMD measurements in skull to reflect the status of the skeletal system, although information on body conditions and nutritional stressors, relevant for osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity, was not available.
To ensure that BMD in the skull represents the mineral status of the skeletal system in general, a study was conducted where the BMD of the skull, one femur, and three lumbar vertebrae were compared in a subset of 13 free-ranging polar bears (3 subadults, 2 adult females, and 8 adult males) from Svalbard and East Greenland.
Similarly, MR imaging provides further information on the status of the skull base neurovascular structures when bony erosions are identified on CT.
The skeleton has only a left humerus (length = 117.2 mm) while a right humerus (length = 117.0 mm) was found adhering to the skull in Grave I. Considering their proximity, adult status, and the complementary representativeness of elements, we suggest that the skull from Grave I and the post-cranial skeleton from Grave VIII belong to the same animal.
Zooarchaeologist Melinda Zeder of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. says that the findings make sense given the symbolic status of the animals, whose horns and skulls adorn the walls of many of the settlement's mudbrick houses, she says.
Besides altered mental status, the presence of signs of base of skull fracture, unequal pupils, and scalp hematoma were statistically significant.
Diplo transcends his outsider status with brazen force; Hershey, who performs as Dre Skull, tends toward assimilation, dutifully experimenting within the existing framework of reggae and dancehall music.
The cross tattoo represents his time with the Brood, and his star and skull tattoos represent his Rated-R Superstar persona and his self-proclaimed status as the "Guns N' Roses of wrestling".
A report presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in late 2007 reevaluated the status of four species of pachycephalosaurs dinosaurs with distinctive thick skulls with bony spikes along their snouts.
