 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Physiology - 1872 - 438 pages
...apex of the odontoid peg to either side of the margins of the occipital foramen, ie the large hole in the base of the skull, through which the spinal cord passes to join the brain ; these, from their function in helping to stop excessive rotation of the skull,... | |
 | Joseph Hughes - Education - 1883 - 568 pages
...easily accounted for. In the former, the ' occipital foramen,' or in plainer language, the orifice in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes to the brain, is placed so far back that the whole weight of the head is thrown forward, tending, of... | |
 | Education - 1883 - 654 pages
...easily accounted for. In the former, the ' occipital foramen,' or in plainer language, the orifice in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes to the brain, is placed so far back that the whole weight of the head is thrown forward, tending, of... | |
 | Vincent T. Murché - Human physiology - 1884 - 156 pages
...Boots of Spinal >"erves. Front view. of the skull to the first lumbar vertebra, and is thus about 16 or 18 inches in length. It is about the thickness...continuations of those lining the cavity of the skull. The Spinal Cord, like the brain, consists of the two kinds of nerve matter — white and gray — but their... | |
 | Alfred Cort Haddon - Anthropology - 1898 - 472 pages
...owing to the assumption of the erect attitude; but the position of the large hole (the foramen magnum) in the base of the skull, through which the spinal cord passes into the brain, and the balancing of the head on the vertebral column, attest to the same fact. The... | |
 | Erin D. Bigler, Pamelia Fowler Clement - Medical - 1997 - 470 pages
...muscle that flexes a joint foramen: an opening or space for something to pass through foramen magnum: the opening in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes fugue: in reference to seizure disorder, a condition of clouded consciousness Gerstmann's syndrome:... | |
 | William White Howells - Science - 1997 - 282 pages
...containing ancestral forms of several later lines of higher primates. Foramen magnum. The quarter-sized opening in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes. Joint surfaces for support of the skull on the spine are placed on either side. Gene. A region of DNA... | |
 | Houghton Mifflin Company - Medical - 1998 - 516 pages
...in the lateral walls on each side of the vestibule of the vagina. great foramen n. The latge orifice in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes to the cranial cavity and becomes continuous with the medulla oblongata. great saphenous vein и. A... | |
 | Arthur Bard, Mitchell G. Bard - Health & Fitness - 2002 - 364 pages
...learn of the shocking event. These memories are referred to as "flashbulb memories." foramen magnum The opening in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord exits the skull and goes into the neck. forebrain Front part of the brain that includes the cerebrum,... | |
 | Noel T. Boaz, Russell L. Ciochon - Science - 2004 - 264 pages
...shape in Sinanthropus to that of ape skulls. He measured the position of the foramen magnum, the hole in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes, and noted that it was located more to the back of the head, again, more apelike than in modern humans.... | |
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Broom showed that the foramen magnum, the hole in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes and... 
