Sentences with phrase «called vertebrae»

The vertebral column consists of numerous small bones called vertebrae that are linked together by joints called intervertebral disks.

The vertebral column consists of numerous small bones called vertebrae that are linked together by special joints called intervertebral discs.

The human spine is made up of 24 bones, called vertebrae, stacked on top of one another.

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The discovery nearly two decades ago of nine beautifully articulated vertebrae at Big Bend National Park is shedding new light on a 66 million - year - old sauropod native to Texas and the North American southwest called Alamosaurus sanjuanensis.

In 1996, researchers discovered that low density bones and fractured vertebra seem to accompany a different form, or allele, of a gene called COLIA1.

Up to now, intervertebral discs have not been replaced by mobile joints, but by so - called cages, a kind of place holder that both supports and allows the adjacent vertebrae to grow and fuse together.

A so - called segmentation clock creates this repetitive arrangement in developing embryos: Each time the clock ticks, a vertebra starts to form.

In mammals and dinosaurs, each vertebra is made of two bones that slowly fuse over time: the main, often cylindrical body of the vertebra called the centrum and the arc of bone that houses the spinal cord, called the neural arch.

In contrast, modern birds, which evolved from dinosaurs, have much shorter stubs of tails called pygostyles, formed by fusing several vertebrae.

The species name xenarthrosus refers to the odd way the creature's spinal vertebrae interlock and stiffen the back, similar to modern - day armadillos, anteaters, and other mammals in a group called xenarthrans.

In frogs, these vertebrae have shrunk further and fused into a single hollow bone called a urostyle.

The cartilaginous discs between each vertebra develop from an embryonic structure called the notochord.

Once you lose this rotational movement, it affects those tiny, little important joints which connect the vertebra to the ribs, what we call costovertebral joint.

The AS causes fusing of the spine, and like many with this disease, you end up going years before you are properly diagnosed, so I already had fusions of my sacroiliac joints (pelvis) and in a few vertebrae before I had a name to call this disease.

Muscular tension causes vertebrae to be pulled out of their normal position calling what a chiropractor would call a subluxation.

This means we find that happy medium between the two extremes of our pelvic motion where we have a gentle lumbar curve that gives a slight lift to our tailbone allowing our multifidi muscles to engage, allowing our transversus abdominus muscle to pull against solid interlocked vertebrae, and allowing our pelvic floor muscles to pull against a solid tail bone to contract when needed and come back to a neutral resting position when not being called upon.

This contributes to greater mental clarity, according to Kundalini yoga, because all 26 vertebrae receive stimulation and all the body's energy centers get a wake - up call.

At the base of the spine, is a bony plate called the sacrum which is made of 5 fused vertebrae.

The tail consists of vertebrae (called «caudal» vertebrae), muscle, ligaments and tendon.

The instrument we use to stimulate the muscles and ganglia along the vertebrae is called the VetroStim.

The vertebrae are connected by joints called intervertebral disks.

The vertebral column consists of numerous small bones called «vertebrae» which are linked together by special joints called «intervertebral disks.»

Doberman Pinschers are the 2nd most likely breed to suffer from a serious disease of the neck vertebrae called Wobbler's disease.

The section between the last lumbar and first sacral vertebrae is called the lumbosacral (L - S) junction.

The intervertebral disc, which sits between vertebrae, is composed of an outer fibrous basket (annulus fibrosus) made of 70 % collagen and an inner gel - like layer called the nucleus pulposus.

The stress put on the spinal column in a car collision can cause a piece of the spinal structure (called a disk) that separates your back bones or vertebrae, to move out of place.

If the injury affects the area below the bottom vertebra and includes a lack of neurological function, it's called a complete spinal cord injury.