Word: cranial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover photograph was striking, but the lens and/or perspective distorted the head of Homo habilis. I should not wish readers to think in terms of huge-headed ancestors. Indeed, the cranial size was smaller than today's average human...
...surgeon is one of millions of Americans who chronically suffer from that most severe of headaches: the migraine (from the Greek for "half skull").-Virtually everyone has an occasional headache, and it can usually be treated by nothing more sophisticated than aspirin. But the migraine is different. This violent cranial storm was for a long time medicine's stepchild. Few drugs were useful against it, and doctors could offer little help in relieving...
...anything from simple, tension-induced tightening of the muscles in the head or neck to more serious injury or illness, such as a blood clot or tumor. But migraines belong to a different and puzzling category known as vascular headaches. They seem to stem from a swelling of cranial blood vessels, which may be accompanied by some local inflammation. Some doctors also implicate bodily chemicals, notably histamine and serotonin. Investigators at Baylor University have even reported that over a prolonged period of time migraines may damage some brain cells?apparently without any noticeable mental impairment. Migraine sufferers have included such...
While I've always enjoyed a whirl down the Highland St. hill on my Flexible Flyer, my idea of a good time stops short of broken bones and cranial concussions...
...Bronowski's "personal view" of the development of civilization, carries the gloomy foreboding that the viewer may be in for a three-month brush-up course in anthropology-no bad thing, perhaps, but not an exciting prospect either. Bronowski in Ethiopia's Omo Valley musing over the cranial capacity of our earliest ancestors, Bronowski reflecting on the first stirrings of the artistic impulse before the cave paintings at Altamira -it is all ground that other popularizers have covered. Though he makes an engagingly earnest guide, other cultured minds have already taken short trips over the same territory...