Sentences with phrase «transilial vertebral»

Ultimately, we learned that, when Sarah's head snapped back in her fall, the whiplash caused a tear (dissection) of her vertebral artery, which cut off the blood to her brain, causing her to go into cardiac arrest and resulting in irreversible brain damage.

He suffered a concussion, his neck was fractured (C1) and one of his vertebral arteries had been dissected.

Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges, which are the three membranes that line the skull and vertebral canal that surround the brain and spinal cord.

More commonly, deformational plagiocephaly occurs postnatally and is associated with congenital torticollis, vertebral anomalies, neurologic impairment, or forced sleeping position.3 — 5 Few reports document any late effects of deformational plagiocephaly other than potential cosmetic concerns and the potential for strabismus, especially involving vertical eye movements.6,, 7 Plagiocephaly may be morphometrically evident in as many as 14 % of adults, but it is rarely recognized.8

The misalignments referred as vertebral subluxations are large enough, then the functioning of the major nervous system in your baby are compromised.

Although not many cod are accidentally caught by pulse trawlers, about 10 % of them suffer vertebral fractures and hemorrhages when their muscles overcontract from the shocks.

The researchers report that compared to volunteers in the control group, retired rugby players had significantly narrower vertebral canals (which house the spinal cord) and greater foraminal stenosis (narrowing of the foramen through which spinal nerve roots exit the vertebral canal).

Palmer believed that a back out of whack — «subluxation,» or vertebral misalignment — causes 95 percent of diseases.

They will no longer be able to move independently of one another but children's necks are so flexible that Jaxon's other vertebral joints will compensate, and with continuous use will keep the ligaments flexible.

The authors suggest that the unique pattern of vertebral maturation and longer period of brain growth might reflect the larger and broader body form typical of Neandertals.

«However, some specific anatomical systems had a more extended period of growth; in particular, parts of the vertebral column and quite possibly also in the brain.»

The mammal vertebral column is highly variable among species, reflecting adaptations to a wide range of lifestyles, from burrowing in moles to flying in bats.

This is a skeleton of a juvenile specimen of an Asian elephant with a stiff vertebral column, due to the long thorax with many ribs, the short lumbar ribless region (behind the thorax) and the dorsal spines that are all backward pointing.

In a paper published Sept. 21 in Cell, Harvard Medical School genetics professor Olivier Pourquié — whose lab discovered the segmentation clock 20 years ago — and colleagues report that they used mouse cells to reconstitute a stable version of this clockwork for the first time in a petri dish, leading to several new discoveries about where the clock is located, what makes it tick and how the vertebral column takes shape.

Ultimately, Dr. Embree and her team say, the findings could lead to strategies for repairing fibrocartilage in other joints, including the knees and vertebral discs.

Among postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at risk of fracture, daily injection of the drug abaloparatide for 18 months significantly reduced the risk of new vertebral and nonvertebral fractures compared with placebo, according to a study appearing in the August 16 issue of JAMA.

To investigate this, teams from Oslo University Hospital and Hospital del Mar - IMIM of Autonomous University, Barcelona, examined 41 Norwegian and 46 Spanish women, all of whom had normal bone mineral density (BMD) values, no clinical or morphometric vertebral fractures, no detectable signs of secondary osteoporosis and no use of drugs with known influence on bone metabolism.

«It completely lacks key features of the vertebral column that would make it a squamate [scaled reptile] and more specifically a snake,» he says.

«Hormone therapy helps reduce curvature of the spine: The risk of developing age - related kyphosis declines with hormone therapy, which has been proven to reverse bone loss and to help prevent vertebral fractures.»

Sympathetic nerves originate inside the vertebral column, toward the middle of the spinal cord in the intermediolateral cell column (or lateral horn), beginning at the first thoracic segment of the spinal cord and are thought to extend to the second or third lumbar segments.

Since two of the three related groups use only somites in vertebral development, Criswell concluded that the common ancestor for all jawed vertebrates had a backbone derived from somites.

Given that hyperkyphosis is also associated with bone loss and vertebral fractures, the authors of the article «Patterns of menopausal hormone therapy use and hyperkyphosis in older women» hypothesized that HT may also be effective in helping prevent exaggerated spine curvature, sometimes called dowager's hump.

Axons of these nerves leave the spinal cord in the ventral branches (rami) of the spinal nerves, and then separate out as «white rami» (so called from the shiny white sheaths of myelin around each axon) which connect to two chain ganglia extending alongside the vertebral column on the left and right.

In 97 - million - year - old freshwater sediments in eastern Morocco, researchers discovered new Spinosaurus fossils, including parts of the skull, vertebral column, pelvis, and limb bones.

Over time, trauma to the vertebrae induces dormant cells to activate, and the tail will regenerate with an underlying tube of cartilage rather than separate vertebral bones.

Funded by NSF, DARPA, and the Office of Naval Research, members of the lab are studying fish schooling behavior and the vertebral columns in sharks and bony fish.

In the United States alone, 700,000 people suffer vertebral fractures per year and back problems are the sixth leading human malady in the world.

The upshot: The driver, who had a concussion and three vertebral fractures, got swift treatment and has made a good recovery.

Standards in the management of hip fracture patients are high, but more focus needs to be placed on the identification and treatment of vertebral fracture patients and on the establishment of fracture databases.»

FLS saved a total of 5.5 hip fractures, 7.3 vertebral fractures 6.0 wrist fractures, and 3.6 other fractures.

In the study, published in the journal «Osteoporosis International», investigators from the University of Tasmania, Anhui Medical University and Nanjing Medical University estimated that in 2010 more than 2.3 million osteoporosis - related hip, clinical vertebral and wrist fractures occurred in the population aged 50 years and over.

The majority of institutions achieved the gold level in each of the 13 standards, except for vertebral fracture identification and database.

To construct the growth curve, researchers combined recently published information on white shark longevity with a further look at band pair counting on vertebral samples from 77 white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), 41 male and 36 female.

The 110 - million - year - old six - inch - wide ten - pound fossil of what appears to be a vertebral fragment, unearthed by amateur fossil hunters at Cedar Mountain, Utah, harbors the earliest known tumors ever recorded.

Cross-section of a little skate vertebra showing the spinal cord, blood vessels, and vertebral cartilage.

Katharine E. Criswell, Michael I. Coates, and J. Andrew Gillis (2017) Embryonic origin of the gnathostome vertebral skeleton.

Cox regression model adjusted for age, sex, weight, height, known fracture - free time, previous fracture, number of previous fractures, previous hip fracture, previous vertebral fracture, previous fall injury, osteoporosis, secondary osteoporosis, Charlson comorbidity index, rheumatoid arthritis, previous calcium and vitamin D treatment, and alcohol - related diseases.

The effect of glucocorticoid treatment is most prominent on trabecular bone and is therefore likely to be larger on vertebral bone than on hip bone.3 Glucocorticoids are associated with an increased rate of fracture, and higher doses and longer use of glucocorticoids are associated with higher risks of fracture.4 Compared with patients not taking glucocorticoids, the risk of hip and vertebral fracture among patients taking glucocorticoids is increased by 60 % and 160 %, respectively.4 Among 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and women.4

Extensive convergence between giant panda and hominoid vertebral formulae [abstract].

Dr. Elizabeth Samelson, Associate Scientist, Institute for Aging Research, and Principal Investigator of the study, explains, «The commentary highlights our main finding that the excessive forward curvature, or hyperkyphosis, has a relatively high genetic component that is not explained by the presence of vertebral fractures.»

Its anklebones and vertebral column are also similar to the anatomy of previously known mammal - like reptiles.

The catastrophe involved a woman in her 80s with mild Alzheimer's - type dementia who came to the doctor for back pain from a vertebral fracture.

«The specimen includes not just a complete skull, but a complete vertebral column and parts of both flippers.»

Other major finds included Sts 5, a superb fossil skull, and Sts 14, a partial skeleton which consisted of much of a pelvis, femur, and vertebral column and proved convincingly that australopithecines had walked upright.

A Dosimetric Evaluation of the Eclipse and Pinnacle Treatment Planning Systems in Treatment of Vertebral Bodies Using IMRT and VMAT with Modeled and Commissioned Flattening Filter Free Fields

How this variation in the structure of the anterior vertebral column arose is not at all clear.

Vertebral osteomyelitis affects two to six out of 100,000 people a year.

A simple blood test can alert a doctor that a patient may have vertebral osteomyelitis, and an MRI and biopsy can confirm it.

J.S. Athertya, G. Saravana Kumar, «Automatic segmentation of vertebral contours from CT images using fuzzy corners» [Comput.

Cerebrovascular disease includes aneurysms, stroke, vertebral stenosis, carotid stenosis and intracranial stenosis, as well as vascular malformations.