Sentences with phrase «cadaver studies»

The adductor magnus is a very large muscle, with cadaver studies indicating that its cross-sectional area in elderly people spans from 11.65 — 26.9 cm ² (Pohtilla et al. 1969; Ito et al. 2003).

Cadaver studies have observed that forces applied to the adductors do bring about strain in the rectus abdominis and that the magnitude of this strain differs substantially between individuals (Norton ‐ Old et al. 2013).

In contrast, large - scale cadaver studies (Vangness et al., 1994) describe the origin of the long head attaching quite evenly between the supraglenoid tubercle and the superior glenoid labrum, between 40 - 60 % of the fibers attaching to the supraglenoid tubercle.

Engineering students tend to help with the motion analysis studies; however, both types would help with cadaver studies.»

I've examined environmental and social impacts of cellphones, pondered hummingbird flight mechanics, broken solar panels, and assisted with cadaver studies of biomedical devices.

That postulation turned out to be correct: the Belgian doctors are the first to provide a full anatomical description of the ligament after a broad cadaver study using macroscopic dissection techniques.

Not exact matches

Mona Lisa is the result of the artist - scientist's studies of anatomy: da Vinci «peeled flesh off of the faces of cadavers, delineated the muscles that move the lips, and then painted the world's most memorable smile,» Isaacson writes in the opening of his new book.

The main problem is that it is extremely difficult to measure electrical activity deep inside the brain of a living person, and differences between the brains of living people and those of the animals and cadavers that previous studies have used are significant.

Some essays delve into scientific history, such as miniature crime scenes used in forensic science and the history of cadavers in the study of anatomy.

«The only way to answer this is with a really big sample of cadavers,» says Sibyl Bucheli of the Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, who is also studying the death microbiome.

Departing from prior studies, the team collected epithelial cells and fibroblasts from human sources: one cadaver and four living people who had their healthy voice boxes removed during unrelated surgeries.

Now, a study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator - trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.

However, in a new study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers have turned to analyzing the human microbiome, the bacteria and other microbes that live on and in our bodies, for clues about the postmortem interval of a cadaver.

Mazziotta and Toga's study also includes cadaver brains, cut up into more than 2,500 microscopically thin slices and mounted on glass slides, then stained and digitally photographed.

The scientists zeroed in on the cells from the hippocampi of the cadavers, examining the switch for the stress hormone gene they had studied in rats.

DeBruyn, who typically studies the communities of microbes in soils, is one of a handful of researchers probing such communities in and on cadavers.

The study of microscopic anatomy (or histology) can be aided by practical experience examining histological preparations (or slides) under a microscope; and in addition, medical students generally also learn gross anatomy with practical experience of dissection and inspection of cadavers (dead human bodies).

Their experiments at body farms — outdoor facilities where scientists study the decomposition of donated cadavers — have established a timekeeping accuracy of two to four days over a 25 - day period.

For the study, the researchers first collected vocal cord tissue from four people who had their larynges removed for unrelated reasons, and from one human cadaver.

A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of California, San Diego indicates unique and changing microbial communities present during the decomposition of human cadavers look to be a reliable «clock» for forensic scientists.

The sphenozygomatic suture as a key site for osteosynthesis of the orbitozygomatic complex in panfacial fractures: A biomechanical study in human cadavers based on clinical practice.

We studied years of biochemistry, biomechanics and cadaver dissection.

To date, muscle moment arm studies using cadavers or computerised models have not been able to provide data on the moment arm lengths of the trapezius during its primary actions.

Lim et al. (2001) studied 23 cadavers aged 65 years and found that the long head of the triceps muscle weighed 85.17 g.

The gluteus medius has been weighed in a small number of cadaver dissection studies.

In contrast to other studies identifying upper and lower regions using either EMG or MMG, Gibbons and Mottram (2004) performed an anatomical dissection study of the gluteus maximus muscles of 12 cadavers.

Németh & Ohlsén (1984) performed a study of 10 cadavers and 20 live subjects, and reported that the hip extension moment arm length of the gluteus maximus moment arm of gluteus maximus decreased substantially from around 8 cm to 3 cm with increasing hip flexion angle, making the gluteus maximus far more effective as a hip extensor in full hip extension, than in full hip flexion.

Dissection studies in single elderly male cadavers have reported that the gluteus maximus weighs 573g (Ito et al. 2003) and 989g (Horsman et al. 2007).

They can earn nursing and emergency medical technician certifications while attending high school, study literacy through science, and learn biology through exploration of human cadavers.

They fall in love as they study for their exams, face moral dilemmas as they split open cadavers, confront police who rough up their patients, and treat schizophrenics with pathologies similar to their own.

Evidentiary value: Phase 1 cadaveric study - five long - haired, large breed canine cadavers; Phase 2 clinical study - eight clinically healthy Golden Retrievers.

In 1977, when most of my classmates at the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine were studying cadavers for gross anatomy or microscope slides for histopathology, I might have been found in the veterinary school library reading Dr. Ross Clark's pioneering articles on practice management in Veterinary Economics.