New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

Anthropologists confirm a direct link between upright two-legged (bipedal) walking and the position of the foramen magnum, a hole in the base of the skull that transmits the spinal cord.

Upon examining the man, his doctors noted a tear in the back of his throat on the right side. What happened next: The man, a ...

Disease in foramen ovale (Figure 4A) most likely is due to centrifugal PNS — because foramen ovale is on the periphery of the tumor’s path of growth through the skull base — and less likely ...

On the bottom of your skull, there is a distinctive hole. The technical name for the opening is the foramen magnum the great hole that the spinal cord and other critical soft tissues run through.

These 3D renderings of mouse skulls clearly show the effects of RUNX2 deficiency. Fgfr3-creER mice, which were the control group, and Fgfr3-Runx2c ...

Symptomatic CM1, also called the Chiari syndrome, is characterized mainly by headache but also by numbness or weakness in the hands or feet and visual, hearing, balance, and cranial-nerve abnormali ...

It leaves the skull and enters the spine through an opening at the base of your skull called the foramen magnum. When you have basilar invagination, the C2 vertebra pushes into C1 toward the ...

They found that Toumaï had a cranial capacity of 378 cubic centimeters—consistent with ... and the forward position of its foramen magnum (the spinal cord opening in the base of the skull), ...

Problems with cranial base growth, which supports the skull’s structure, can lead to several chronic conditions of the face and upper airway. However, the molecular mechanisms regulating ...