Sentences with phrase «cartilage than bone»

Bowel blockages Long bones have soft ends that are more cartilage than bone.

Not exact matches

Less than 11 months after having hip - replacement surgery, Jackson looked much like the vibrant, sculpted specimen we were used to seeing before he fractured his left hip socket, shearing cartilage and cutting off the blood supply to the top of the thigh bone, while being tackled in an NFL playoff game on Jan. 13, 1991.

Due to the fact that the physis is made of cartilage, these areas are weaker than the rest of the bone, and can be susceptible to injury.

These little holes cause the bone to bleed; bringing in new cells which can form new cartilage (not as good as the original but still better than nothing!)

The reason is that dinosaur legs probably contained thicker pads of cartilage at the bone joints than scientists assumed.

For example, they identified SNVs in genes encoding the collagen proteins that make up bone and cartilage, and in genes where other mutations have caused defects similar to Ata's, such as fewer - than - normal ribs or short stature.

«Although our study's results may in part be explained by joint injuries associated with high - level physical activity in those with a lower 2D: 4D and the greater susceptibility of knee OA in response to injury than hip OA, they may also reflect hormonal influences on the growth of bone, cartilage, and soft tissue, which warrants further investigation.»

Also, at that age the skeleton consists mostly of cartilage, which is more vulnerable to decay than bone.

When quarterback Tom Brady tore a knee ligament last year, the New England Patriots got a rude lesson in the limits of modern medicine: Repairing injured ligaments, tendons, and cartilage is difficult, much trickier than mending a broken bone.

Recently, for example, researchers studied the bone joints of dinosaurs and those of modern - day birds and reptiles and concluded that some dinosaurs must have sported much thicker - than - expected pads of cartilage in their joints.

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.

The ability to make pure populations of these cells within days rather than the weeks or months previously required is a key step toward clinically useful regenerative medicine — potentially allowing researchers to generate new beating heart cells to repair damage after a heart attack or to create cartilage or bone to reinvigorate creaky joints or heal from trauma.

hagfish Slimy, eel - shaped fish without hinging jaws, whose skeletons are made of bendy cartilage rather than hard bone, and with eyes far simpler than those of other fish.

The lowdown More than a quarter of women will develop osteoarthritis — a condition in which the cartilage that covers the bone surfaces at your joints begins to erode — in their hands.

The pancreas and salivary glands would be richest; reproductive organs, brains, cartilage and possibly kidneys would also be very rich; finally, bone would be richer than muscle meat.15, 16,69 Analyses of fish eggs, which Price found to be rich in Activator X, are not available.

The cartilage in the hip socket wears away faster than it can regenerate, which exposes the bone, causing movement to become very painful.

This means that their products include more than just muscle meat — they also include organ meats, cartilage, and raw bone.

This portion of the bone collapses (in an X-ray you can see the femur head is far less dense than normal bone), and the surrounding cartilage cracks and warps.

About half the flaps or mice were all cartilage, and 25 % each were bone or both, the bone sometimes being formed by ossification rather than being pulled off.

Stress fractures almost always show an obvious bone fragment on the X-ray picture, but more often than not, the OCD lesion is either all cartilage or hard to find on film, sometimes because bone has been partly or completely resorbed.