Sentences with phrase «first thoracic»

Klempke's palsy takes place when the first thoracic nerve and the eighth cervical nerve are damaged.

The middle fibers originate from the seventh cervical spinal process to the first thoracic spinal process.

«In primitive kinds of crustaceans, we found Ubx - abdA is turned on in the first thoracic segment and is «on» from there back to the tail,» Patel said.

It has been observed that honeybees have difficulties in grooming some parts of their body, e.g. behind the head, the central dorsal part of their first thoracic segment and the first two abdomen segments [30].

Sympathetic nerves originate inside the vertebral column, toward the middle of the spinal cord in the intermediolateral cell column (or lateral horn), beginning at the first thoracic segment of the spinal cord and are thought to extend to the second or third lumbar segments.

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A herniated thoracic disk kept him sidelined for L.A.'s first 39 games this season, and his teammates feared that the leading scorer in NHL history was through at 32.

The purpose of this this 0 - 3 month old baby massage complex is first of all to train baby's body for different movements, reduce high tone of flexor muscles of hands and feet, as well as the active development of cervical spine, strengthening the upper thoracic spine muscles and shoulder girdle.

When it came back positive, we were intrigued,» said first author Yin (Rex) Hung, MD, PhD, the Corson Thoracic Pathology Fellow in the Department of Pathology at BWH and HMS.

The remarkable specimen — which includes nine skeletal elements from one individual, including the thoracic vertebrae and the femoral bones — is being heralded as the «best preserved hesperornithiform material from Asia» and to be «the first report of the hesperorinthiforms from the eastern margin of the Eurasian Continent.»

Commenting on the trial, Dr Alice Shaw, director of thoracic oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Centre in Boston, US, said: «This is the first randomised study to examine how a second generation ALK inhibitor compares to standard second line chemotherapy in ALK positive patients who failed the standard first line therapy, which currently is crizotinib.»

Firefighters who responded in the first two days of the World Trade Center disaster and those who worked at the site for six months or longer are more likely to need sinus surgery than firefighters whose exposure to the site's caustic dust was less intense or shorter term, according to new research published in the American Thoracic Society journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Through genetic analysis of a family with a history of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified mutations in the LOX gene, a gene associated with the integrity of the arterial wall, in human subjects for the first time.

Published online today ahead of print in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, the study is believed to be the first to quantify the impact of opioid abuse on critical care resources in the United States.

A thoracic surgeon who attracted widespread attention for transplanting artificial tracheae into patients — and then faced scientific misconduct charges — has been found not guilty in the first of two investigations into his work.

The results published in the October issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the official journal for the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, show that TNI levels were undetectable in all patients before RT and increased slightly in 2 patients following RT but these returned to undetectable levels at the first follow - up.

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital was the first comprehensive TIS treatment program in Michigan, and among the first in the nation, to give children with thoracic insufficiency syndrome access to the groundbreaking VEPTR device and we continue to be one of the most experienced VEPTR programs in the country.

In 1941, we made history when Dr. Cameron Haight, a U-M thoracic surgeon, performed the world's first successful esophageal atresia repair on an infant.

Led by Leena Gandhi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and director of thoracic medical oncology, researchers from the KEYNOTE - 021 study demonstrated for the first time that combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor — in this case, pembrolizumab — with a platinum - doublet chemotherapy regimen might be more effective than chemotherapy alone as first - line treatment for advanced, non-squamous NSCLC.

If you have an S curve and know which curve is primary (often the thoracic curve), make adjustments there first and then adjust the area surrounding the secondary curve (often the lumbar curve), so that you are not treating the compensatory effect rather than its root cause.

Demonstration of the Techniques Using the Heel on Thoracic Spine and Ribs Sarah shows the first basics of using the heel 3.

But first, you need to ensure you have mobility in your thoracic spine, which we'll do via a thoracic spine stretch.

First, perform some proprioception / soft tissue work on the lats, thoracic spine, and pecs.

The first is that the natural shape of the thoracic spine is a forward bend, meaning it is convex in the rear, so it has a long way to go before it bends backward.

Additional publications include the first report of a complete eosinophilic pleocytosis in the spinal fluid of a cat, and a novel approach to the cranial thoracic spine of dogs and cats.

Although when first discovered, most dogs with OSA have «clean» thoracic radiographs (chest X-rays), there are usually tumor cells present in the lungs, but the masses are too small to be seen in routine radiographs.

Back when the term High - Rise Syndrome was first coined, a study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association found that, of the 132 cases reviewed, a whopping 90 % of the cats had some form of chest injury (thoracic trauma).

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.

The patient with thoracic effusion: presentation and first aid, clinical assessment, oxygen therapy, thoracocentesis and thoracic drainage Gary W. Ellison DVM, MS, Dipl ACVS, Florida, USA