Dave deBronkart

Diagnosed incidentally with stage IV, grade 4 metastatic renal cell carcinoma, I had bone metastases in my femur (which eventually fractured), ulna, and cranium; five metastases in my lungs; and muscle metastases in my thigh and tongue. Yet six months after diagnosis, my treatment ended: I've not had a drop of anything since.

American Writer

Don Tapscott

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

Canadian Businessman

Charles Lyell

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

British Lawyer

Used in biology or medicine to refer to the bony structure of the head.

Anatomical Term

More formal and scientific than 'head' or 'skull'; not used in everyday conversation.

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Often linked with safety and protecting the brain, like in sports or constructions.

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 Even with this constraint, his exhaustive investigations yielded some remarkably accurate conclusions. One of Galen’s most important contributions was the insight that the brain, not the heart, controlled the body. He confirmed this theory by opening the cranium of a living cow.

Ancient Rome’s most...

 before we see any growth whatsoever. So they are, intrinsically, a slower life-form. But the real issue is that we are guided by our limited experience, and until we can think out of the box of our cranium and what we know, then we can't recognize what to look for,

Penelope Boston: Life on...

 The traditional surgery is to take a bit of the cranium off, a bit of the skull, drain this fluid out, stick a drain in place, and then eventually bring this drain internal to the body. Big operation. But some great news is that advances in neurosurgical care

Lifelike simulations...

 excited to finally start throwing clay it's a departure into the to the real world now from that virtual world only when this is done can he begin adding flesh hair and eyes to complete boo shras unique face with its primitive jawline and modern cranium

Sculpting Plasticine...

 causing symptoms like hearing loss and extreme light sensitivity. As pressure increases in the cranium, it may also make the person confused-- one of the hallmarks of the disease. A few hours in, the rapidly multiplying bacteria start to release toxins,

Why is meningitis so...

 you know so do you have to say it hurt yeah yes as their today like one of the doctors that helped stitch it up yeah was like I said not those fine was like yeah I could like see your cranium oh oh haha that's public we always laugh we

Frankenstein's Stiches PIPE...

 so a skeleton with a clavicle that hasn't fully formed must be younger than that. Similarly, the plates in the cranium can continue fusing up to age 40, and sometimes beyond. By combining these with some microscopic skeletal clues,

What can you learn from...

 relatively fast because the cranium of the sea lion is not that big and the pelvis of the cow is wide enough to support that the body quite hydrodynamic will follow fairly quick the gestation period for sea lions is longer than

Incredible Sea Lion...

 so it wouldn't be where you're looking and it wouldn't be where you're making eye contact with people. And also we wanted to free up the ears, so the sound actually goes through, conducts straight to the bones in your cranium,

Sergey Brin: Why Google...

 But in computers, signals can travel at the speed of light. There are also size limitations, like a human brain has to fit inside a cranium, but a computer can be the size of a warehouse or larger.

Cranium

The skull, the part of head that holds the brain.

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