Sentences with phrase «caused by a bone»

The researchers also examined skin slices from two patients with another form of nerve disease called AL amyloidosis, caused by a bone marrow disorder.

These studies revealed that the void's physical characteristics — the type and location of missing bone — were consistent with a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm, a tumor caused by a bone growth disorder, the scientists report online today in PLOS ONE.

Antibacterial drugs are sometimes prescribed to treat and prevent infection caused by bone marrow suppression, a side effect of cancer drugs.

Amongst adults, bone cancer symptoms are often mistaken for the symptoms that are caused by arthritis; thus a patient may consider arthritis as the cause of the symptoms they are experiencing when, in reality, it is caused by bone cancer.

Additionally, green lipped mussel for dogs can relieve joint pain caused by bone and cartilage breakdown.

On the other hand, rawhide chews are something all dog owners should avoid because of the risk of digestive problems caused by bone that can get stuck.

Also multiple fractures caused by bone reduction.

Whether the symptoms are caused by a bone growth disease or degenerative bone disease in dogs, by obtaining a diagnosis early and administering treatment, you will decrease your puppy's risk for developing early osteoarthritis in the future.

The most common arthritis in dogs and cats is osteoarthritis (OA), named because the problem is caused by the bones (osteo).

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Doctors discovered seven broken bones in her left hand and five in her right, which they believe were caused by «violent squeezing or blows directly to the hands.»

He seemed to me to be exactly like a man who should begin by saying that I, Socrates, do all I do by mind, but who, when he went on to assign a cause for each of my actions, should say, first that I am sitting here now because my body is composed of bones and muscles, and that the bones are hard and divided by joints, while the muscles can be tightened and relaxed and, together with the flesh and the skin which contains it, cover the bones; and that therefore when the bones are raised in their sockets by the contraction or relaxation of the muscles, I am now able to bend my limbs; — and that that is the cause of my sitting here un prison] all huddled up.

These images are then compared, which helps to eliminate the background effect caused by the product itself and improves the detection of lower density foreign bodies such as fan bones in chicken, bone fragments in meat, or glass and stones in added value meat products.

A dead leg or charley horse is a bruise or contusion caused by a sharp impact with a muscle which is usually crushed against the thigh bone resulting in numbness, swelling and sometimes bruising of the thigh muscles.

By you saying, «There's a higher chance of his tendon being brokenn than have recurring tendonitis» just shows how little you know cause that's exactly what makes tendinitis so difficult to have since flare ups are common and it doesn't just heal like a broken bone.

So breakdowns, she concluded, do not occur randomly in normal bone; they are ordinarily and tragically caused by horses taking the inexplicable «bad step.»

The Female Athlete Triad involves three distinct but inter - related conditions: energy deficiency caused by disordered eating, irregular menstrual cycle and low bone - mineral density.

In the 2000 case of Lisa and Jack Nash, their daughter Molly suffered from a bone marrow deficiency caused by a genetic disorder.

We also see significant moldings on the baby's head with a vacuum, and although the baby cranial bones are designed to move over one another, the forces exerted by vacuum and forceps can often cause shifts in the cranial bones that are not easily self - corrected by the baby after birth.

Each year pediatricians and emergency personnel respond to situations caused by things like a baby falling out of a high chair and breaking a bone or climbing out of their stroller and getting seriously injured.

As nutrition improved, there were fewer women with rickets, which causes bone deformations; many obstructed births in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were caused by abnormal pelvic bones in the mother.

Researchers led by Grace Aldrovandi, MD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, studied 11 biomarkers associated with inflammation, bone loss and / or bone formation in about 450 individuals — assessed by sex and HIV status — to try to determine causes of this differential bone loss.

A second mouse model, induced by overexpression of IL - 17 in skin, also shows bone loss, and suggests that the deregulation of the protein is sufficient to cause this effect.

Often, the conditions are caused by the breakdown of discs, the load - bearing, donut - like structures that cushion the bones of the spine and are made mostly of a tissue called nucleus pulposus.

The researchers made a three - dimensional model of the mandible using a computed tomography (CT) scanner, and found that the deformation of the bone was caused by lots of small breaks.

Jayden had rickets, a Dickensian disease caused by a shortage of vitamin D, making his bones abnormally weak and vulnerable to damage.

One problem with traditional hip implants is that over time they can loosen or cause bone damage by wear and tear, causing pain and requiring repeat surgeries.

Bone tumors cause great pain, promote fractures and ultimately represent the main cause of morbidity, with a 70 percent incidence documented by autopsies, according to Gabriela Loots, an LLNL biomedical scientists and an associate adjunct professor at UC Merced.

«More experimental work on bone damage caused by big, hungry crocs is also critical,» says coauthor Tim White, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

The therapies, hotly pursued by pharmaceutical companies, inhibit proteins called kinases, and aim to halt the inflammation that causes debilitating pain and eventual destruction of bone and cartilage.

By mimicking the stiffness of bone (40 kilopascal) or cartilage (15 kilopascal), the gel causes stem cells applied to its surface to differentiate.

High levels of bone destruction and reduced bone density caused by excessive osteoclasts are characteristic of osteoporosis, a common bone disease in which bones become fragile and susceptible to fracture.

Some were convinced it was caused by wind that got trapped inside the ear and swirled around endlessly, so they tried to liberate the wind by drilling a hole into the bones around the ear or using a silver tube to suck air out of the ear canal.

In addition, spine injuries are often caused by a crushing or twisting motion, so there may be bone fragments floating around and compromised blood flow to the region.

Most cases of rickets are caused by a lack of sun exposure, with effects that can include pain, bone deformities and failure to achieve or maintain adequate bone levels.

Some of the bones also had large longitudinal cracks, caused by poor - quality connective tissue within them — another symptom of vitamin C deficiency.

Neurocutaneous disorders are caused by abnormal development of cells in the embryonic stage, leading to tumors in various parts of the body, including the skin, organs, bones, brain and spinal cord.

Most of the time when the heart is injured, these beneficial immune cells are supplanted by immune cells from the bone marrow, which are spurred to converge in the heart and cause inflammation that leads to further damage.

But after months of discomfort and preliminary tests, the Australian native learned the pain was caused by a cancerous tumor in his femur or thigh bone.

Neuropathic pain isn't caused by a direct injury, like arthritis or a broken bone, that stimulates normal pain nerves — that's nociceptive pain.

Periodontal disease causes distinctive proteomic changes in the dentition and is characterized by chronic inflammation resulting in tooth and bone loss.

According to cardiologist Stefanie Dimmler at the University of Frankfurt in Germany, degraded telomeres might cause heart disease by impeding the ability of cells from the bone marrow to repair damaged parts of the arterial walls.

It is characterized by progressive damage to the joint cartilage — the cushioning material at the end of long bones — and causes changes in the structures around the joint.

The MSP was then taken from the environment by another protein called Ron, which causes the bone cells to secrete acids, destroying the bone.

While most cases of osteoporosis are caused by normal aging, another leading cause of the bone - loss disease is a condition called hyperparathyroidism, in which the parathyroid glands release an excessive amount of a hormone that regulates the body's calcium levels.

The same «treatment» had been discovered in 1822 for another historic scourge, rickets — a deforming childhood condition caused by an inability to make hardened bone.

The research team, led by Nicola C. Partridge, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at NYU Dentistry, had previously found that MCP - 1 is important in producing an anabolic effect of PTH, in which bone formation is increased, and they wanted to know if it was also important in causing a catabolic effect, in which bone is broken down.

Biologists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found bone damage consistent with decompression sickness, caused by nitrogen bubbles in the blood as an animal surfaces too quickly.

Other possible symptoms of the disease, which is usually caused by different mutations of the JAGGED1 gene, are deformities of the eyes or bones, and sometimes growth disorders.

Failure to produce new bone marrow can be caused by disease, trauma, or some cancer treatments, and can lead to a significantly higher risk of infections, and the need for blood transfusions.

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) report the discovery of an RNA molecule that may play a key role in bone restructuring caused by prostate cancer.