Sentences with phrase «few vertebrae»

This is accomplished by removing the back of the occipital bone and often the top of the first few vertebrae.

Basically, this procedure involves the removal of part of a bone in the skull and often the first few vertebrae from the spine.

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.

Then his team attached tiny electrodes to a spot a few vertebrae higher than the tail, on top of membranes just above the spinal cord.

Not exact matches

«There are a number of defensive backs in the league with fewer neck vertebrae because of it.»

But those fossils — a few bits of vertebrae, pelvis and limb — languished unidentified in London's Natural History Museum for several decades.

Mark Hallett, who has drawn and painted dinosaurs for museums, scientific publications, National Geographic, and movie studios, recently rendered a newly discovered dinosaur, Seismosaurus, on the basis of only 40 percent of its skeleton: «A few neck vertebrae, a complete pelvis, about a third of the tail, and no skull,» he says.

Kangaroo tails have more than 20 highly articulated vertebrae, whereas their legs have only a few long bones.

In a two - year study published in 2000 in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Japanese researchers observed that subjects receiving supplemental vitamin K2 showed 52 percent fewer incidences of fractures of the vertebrae, compared with those patients who were not provided with the supplement.

So twisting the vertebra is one of the few ways to get all of the vertebrae under some compression and stimulate bone growth in the vertebrae.

If the symptoms and pain last longer than a few weeks, be sure to consult a doctor, as there is the possibility that you have a dislocated vertebrae, or some other condition that is causing pressure or pinching your nerves.

A few months later, she fell off her horse during a training session, causing her to fracture several vertebrae in her back and needing emergency surgery to keep her from becoming paralyzed.

You should not be able to see ALL the ribs, or the hip bones, or the vertebrae of the spine, just the outline of the last few floating ribs.

You should be able to easily feel your dog's ribs and even see the outline of the last few floating ribs at the end of the ribcage that attaches to the vertebrae of the spine closest to the hips.

Cats with longer tails have as many as 23 vertebrae; those with shorter tails have as few as 18, creating a range of 48 - 53 vertebrae.

In most chondrodystrophic breeds it is the thoracolumbar area, the junction of the last few thoracic vertebrae and the first few lumbar vertebrae, that are involved.