Sentences with phrase «first vertebra»

She was diagnosed with an atlanto - occipital luxation (dislocation of the skull from the spine) and fractures of the first vertebra and the back of the skull.

They drilled away the top of Leah's first vertebra and a small area of the back of her skull, necessary to open that area and decompress the spinal cord.

For some reason on this model, the splenius cervicis isn't shown, but this originates a little bit lower down and inserts onto the transverse process of the first vertebra.

Up, down, down, up, down, up would take the alien's nail to the spot 11/32 of the way between the original spot between the shoulder blades and the first vertebra.

Not exact matches

In Beijing, doctors have performed the world's first surgery using a 3D printed vertebra.

For the first three months he had to sit motionless in a chair while his vertebra began to heal.

They gonna fuse those vertebrae, so it'll be 100 % fixed, however, it eliminates one (or more) flexible segment of the spine and puts extra bending stress on the first non-fused vertebra on either side of the fused section.

A new push is under way to raise awareness of a little - understood but dangerous risk to young athletes: injuries to the cervical spine, the highly vulnerable area between the first and seventh vertebrae that protects the spinal cord connecting the brain to the body.

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.»

The new lagerpetid specimen also preserves the first skull, scapular, and forelimb elements, plus associated vertebrae, known for the group, the researchers report.

On this occasion, for the first time ever, the Theoretical Biology Group added the head muscles and cartilages to the study of the skull bones (including the inner ear bones, the jaw and the bones that connect with head muscles, such as cervical vertebrae and clavicles).

The itchy place the alien specified, ↑ (cap) ↑, is the first positive vertebra on that new spine.

Now suppose that once you arrived at omega, the alien had said down instead; that spot would be the first negative vertebra on the second spine.

If the alien told you omega ups, followed by another omega ups, followed by an extra up, ↑ (cap) ↑ (cap) ↑, you'd reach the first positive vertebra on the third spine.

«One of the ways captorhinids could do this,» says first author LeBlanc, «was by having breakable tail vertebrae.»

It was found in Kansas and described by the famous US scientist Edward Drinker Cope (1840 — 97, Fig. 2), who, when he first wrote about it in 1868, believed that the almost complete series of 72 neck vertebrae came from a massively long tail.

First, it's a nice, restorative backbend that strengthens your arm, vertebrae and wrists.

Their heads are cut open and they are stabbed to dislocate their vertebrae, a method that doesn't kill the animals at first, leaving them in agony.

The vertebrae of the neck are usually affected first, but the process can extend to the rest of the spine, the ribs, elbows, and other joints.

Except for the first two cervical vertebrae, between every other vertebrate is an intervertebral disc that acts as a cushion.

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

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

Atlantoaxial subluxation is a condition seen primarily in young, small breed dogs where there is instability between the first and second cervical vertebrae.

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

What that means is that he's got instability within the first two vertebrae in his neck, which causes pressure in the spinal cord up in that region and limits impulses going down the rest of the body,» Dr. Verdino said.

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.

«It was a long night,» sighs Horn, whose first show — The Vertebrae Oracle — with Sean Kelly in New York took place this summer and who is at the moment preparing a show at Galerie Lelong in Paris, followed by another at Galerie Thomas Modern in Munich; a site - specific sculpture in the Busch - Reisinger Museum at Harvard is up after that.

The NSCISC estimates that damage to the CI - C4 vertebrae can cost over $ 1 million in the first year and more then $ 100,000 each subsequent year.

Surgery often plays a role in the first stage of treatment in which surgeons remove fragments of bone, fractured vertebrae or any foreign objects that may have intruded the body during the accident.