Normal speech production, deglutition, and breathing are basic functional processes that are dependent, in part, on the patency and normal configuration of the pharyngeal cavity. Ricketts' has stressed the importance of developmental abnormalities in the palatal region in the production of deep changes in voice and breathing patterns in human beings. Perez et al2 and Dedo3 also have reported on...

One of the largest skeletal series of the Upper Palaeolithic period from Predmostí was destroyed during the Second World War, but the study of this material continues up to the present. The discovery of Matiegka's original photographic documentation on glass plates [Velemínská et al., 2004. The use of recently re-discovered glass plate photo-documentation of those human fossil finds from Predmo...

OBJECT Knowledge of the cranium projections of the gyral structures is essential to reduce the surgical complications and to perform minimally invasive interventions in daily neurosurgical practice. Thus, in this study the authors aimed to provide detailed information on cranial projections of the eloquent cortical areas. METHODS Ten formalin-fixed adult human skulls were obtained. Using sutu...

Sex determination is an important step in biological identification from skeletal remains, especially in forensic circumstances. Many authors suggested that the morphological study was more subjective than the metric. There are various craniometric studies in different populations. They revealed that there was population-specific for the sex discriminant equation derived from each population. T...