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the cranium (8 bones: frontal, 2-parietal, occipital, 2-temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid), and; the facial bones (14 bones: 2-zygomatic, 2-maxillary, 2-palatine, 2-nasal, 2-lacrimal, vomer, 2-inferior conchae, mandible). The occipital bone joins with the atlas near the foramen magnum, a large hole at the base of the skull. The atlas joins with the ...
In mammalian anatomy, the cribriform plate (Latin for lit. sieve-shaped), horizontal lamina or lamina cribrosa is part of the ethmoid bone.It is received into the ethmoidal notch of the frontal bone and roofs in the nasal cavities.
The ethmoid bone (/ ˈ ɛ θ m ɔɪ d /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek: ἡθμός, romanized: hēthmós, lit. 'sieve') is an unpaired bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain. It is located at the roof of the nose, between the two orbits. The cubical bone is lightweight due to a spongy construction.
Shells, bone, coconut and wood are all used in Samoan jewellery. Coir is often used in place of string. Throughout the Pacific, some jewellery pieces are more common than others. For example, necklaces, earrings and headdresses of different sorts are all very common items used by Polynesians to adorn themselves.
The human skeleton of an adult usually consists of around 206 bones, depending on the counting of Sternum (which may alternatively be included as the manubrium, body of sternum, and the xiphoid process). [1] It is composed of 270 bones at the time of birth, [2] but later decreases to 206: 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in the ...
Johnson came back with a new spending plan Thursday approved by Trump that had a two year suspension of the debt ceiling. That approach failed, despite the president-elect urging Republicans to ...
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Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, said gay people should be able to serve in the US military in an apparent shift from his previous stance on the issue.