Sentences with phrase «fragment of bone into»

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The 30 or so bits of bone, none more than 7 centimeters long, have suffered much since they were entombed: Ice sheets have scoured Ellesmere Island several times in the past few million years, and today's freeze - thaw cycles continue to splinter fossils into ever - smaller fragments, Rybczynski says.

The uninterrupted freeze of the permafrost preserved DNA in the horse bone, but since DNA decays into smaller and less intelligible fragments over time, the specimen seemed too ancient to analyze.

The damage begins at the moment of injury when displaced bone fragments, disc material or ligaments bruise or tear into spinal cord tissue.

The modern human ancestor who contributed genes to this particular Neanderthal individual — called the «Altai Neanderthal,» and known from a tiny toe bone fragment — must have migrated out of Africa long before the migration that led Africans into Europe and Asia 60,000 years ago, the scientists say.

The initiating events that trigger the inflammatory cascade usually fall into one of two categories, either: 1) abnormal forces imposed on normal joints such as fractures, sprains, obesity, direct trauma, etc.; or 2) normal forces imposed on abnormal joints such as elbow or hip dysplasia, osteochondrosis dissecans (OCD), patellar luxation, ununited anchoneal process, fragmented coronoid process, cranial cruciate ligament rupture or tear, and other congenital or genetic conformational cartilage, bone or joint defects.

Simple fractures describe bones that are broken into 2 or 3 large fragments, whereas comminuted fractures cause shattering of the bone into many tiny pieces.

Chop off the legs, they demanded I chopped off the horse legs and the vermin that sucked on the dead beast scrambled across the floorboards I chopped the horse legs into thousands of pieces and they said what do you see I said I see thousands of bone shards and blood and bits of hair and in each fragment there are villages, towns, hamlets, inlets, streets, suburbs, cities, states, and countries Nations or countries?