
*’volume rendering’ of a ‘mouse skull’*
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-aka “cranium”–
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-22 BONES–
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(except for the ‘mandible’, all of the ‘bones’ of the ‘skull’ are joined together by ‘sutures’, ‘synar-throdial’ (‘immovable’) joints formed by ‘bony ossification’, with ‘sharpey’s fibres’ permitting some flexibility)
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(it has the same general structure as the brains of other mammals, but is over 3 times as large as the brain of a typical mammal with an equivalent ‘body size’…)
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