In the young skull, this area is rough and uneven, and is joined to the body of the sphenoid by a plate of cartilage. By the twenty-fifth year, this cartilaginous plate is ossified, and the occipital ...

Neil Harbisson, the world’s first recognized cyborg, is featured in a new documentary that challenges the boundaries of human ...

Notably, the temporal bone attaches to the joint of the jaw bone—the temporomandibular joint—and is fused with other bones of the skull, including the occipital bone on the lower rear side, the ...

Healthcare providers describe it as: "Fetal position" refers to the direction the fetus is facing. The occipital bone is at the back of the fetus's head. Healthcare providers use this bone as a point ...

Your back muscles are not only important for your posture and aesthetics but also are the key muscles for some of the biggest ...

Beginning as about a dozen small "rootlets" that combine to form two branches, the hypoglossal nerve passes through an area of the brain called the subarachnoid space, then runs through an opening in ...

ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- A tomb dating back approximately 5,000 years, presumed to be the grave of a prehistoric king, ...

A tomb dating back approximately 5,000 years, presumed to be the grave of a prehistoric king, has been discovered at a ruins site in central China's Henan Province, with over 350 artifacts unearthed ...

New research provides a potential explanation for why long-term sclerostin neutralization leads to continued bone mass gain, despite attenuation of its short-term effects on bone formation.

ZHENGZHOU, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- A tomb dating back approximately 5,000 years, presumed to be the grave of a prehistoric king, has been discovered at a ruins site in central China's Henan Province, with ...

Sep. 26, 2024 — Each year, about 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures are performed worldwide, the gold standard of care being autografting, which uses the patient's own bone for tooth ...