Sentences with phrase «more vertebrae»

Tail injuries can involve dislocation of one or more vertebrae (where the injury is a result of the tail being pulled or twisted) or a fracture of a vertebrae (where the injury is from a trauma).

One of the most striking differences between the wild boar and the domesticated pig is that the latter has a considerably longer back, including more vertebrae.

The extinct early mammal had some other unusual features, including more vertebrae than any terrestrial mammal alive today.

He and Caldwell add that although the fossil has more vertebrae in its body than in its tail, the tail isn't short, but longer than that of many living lizards.

Tiktaalik (375 million years ago): Found at a single site in the Canadian Arctic, this transitional fishapod had a number of skeletal quirks, including 45 or more vertebrae.

Not exact matches

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.

Brazilian star Neymar is going to miss the rest of the tournament with a broken vertebra, sparking complaints that FIFA has encouraged referees to be more lenient about dangerous play.

They identified snakelike features in the fossil, including a long body consisting of more than 150 vertebrae, a relatively short tail of 112 vertebrae, hooked teeth, and scales on its belly.

Again and again, animals of various species domesticated at different times in different parts of the world develop the same domestication syndrome characteristics: more extensive breeding periods; smaller brains, hearts and teeth; small or floppy ears; spotted coats; curly hair and tails; variable numbers of vertebrae in the spine; and juvenile faces with shorter snouts.

The specific vertebrae fused in their surgeries were then compared, revealing to the authors that more dramatic spinal fusions — those higher up along the spine — may increase the risk of developing PJK.

READING THE BONES Manual labor specific to two port jobs left its mark on many of the more than 100 Byzantine - era skeletons found at the site: compressed vertebrae typical of a porter carrying heavy loads, and tooth damage that could be from a fisherman's habit of biting down on net ropes as they were cast.

Mammals have seven neck vertebrae — even giraffes, who you would think could do with a couple more.

Women had three wedged vertebrae whereas men had only two, allowing the women to create a more extreme curve.

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

The combination fused the vertebrae more efficiently than the controls that received either a bone graft from a donor or nothing at all, the researchers report today in Science Translational Medicine.

The SML declined to provide more details but the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio said the experts» team has found «irregular destruction» and osteonecrosis in bone fragments of the dorsal and lumbar vertebrae, features of the bone metastasis that appear in advanced prostate cancer.

In the case of back pain, giving time for your muscles to release can allow your vertebrae and discs to align properly, and healing to proceed more easily.

We find the most extension we can in our spine, imagining we can create more space between our vertebrae.

While it's true that deadlifting causes spinal compression (when your vertebrae and discs are being pushed closer together vertically), that's not really an issue for your lumbar vertebrae, since they are designed to deal with compressive forces and your spine can tolerate more force vertically than it can horizontally.

In more severe cases of whiplash there can also be nerve damage and fractures of various processes of the cervical vertebrae

Make more space between the vertebrae as you inhale; twist farther as you exhale.

But turning the torso further doesn't mean that you are rotating each individual vertebra more.

Try releasing the vertebrae in toward your body and away from the skin to bring more relaxation into the back of the neck.

The variation of Upavistha Konasana (Wide - Angle Seated Forward Bend) used in this sequence maximizes the lateral arc of your body, and this creates more stretch than any other movement on certain muscles that run vertically up the sides of the vertebrae or the back of the rib cage.

The more space and cushion between the vertebrae the less likely they are to harden or fuse.

Even then, you focus on backbending the most difficult parts of your neck (the bottom two vertebrae, which resemble thoracic vertebrae) before moving up to the more mobile and overworked midneck segments.

These groups of stuck vertebrae will tend to move as a unit when you bend, while those that are already mobile will tend to become more mobile.

Once she begins to breed she becomes longer, stretching the space between her vertebrae to permit more space for babies.

The forechest, instead of dropping from the prosternum to the last sternal vertebra, may even be concave, and as time goes on the puppy may become even more flat - chested and pancake - shaped.

Intervertebral Disc Disease (IVDD) is a condition where one or more of the discs that cushion between the vertebrae rupture or protrude towards the spinal cord or spinal nerve roots.

Tito was stricken with discospondylitis, an excruciating, infectious condition of one or more spinal discs that spreads into the adjacent vertebrae causing pain and possible permanent disability.

As the disk is compressed by the normal forces between the vertebrae, the annulus fibrosus bulges upwards and puts pressure on the spinal cord more slowly.

One or more of the vertebrae at the base of the neck (cervical vertebrae) may be deformed or otherwise develop instability, putting abnormal pressure on the spinal cord.

Osteosarcoma commonly affects the appendicular skeleton (limbs) of large to giant breed dogs, but can also occur in the axial skeleton (skull, ribs, vertebrae, pelvis), which is a more common primary site in smaller dogs.

In order to make MRI evaluations more consistent, measurements made in the region of the skull and vertebrae of the neck have been developed.

The inherited conditions of aortic stenosis (a narrowing above the aortic heart valve or the aortic valve itself), atopy / allergic dermatitis (skin allergies), gastric dilatation volvulus (bloat / stomach dilation), early onset cataracts (a clouding of the lens inside the eye), dilated cardiomyopathy (enlargement of the chambers of the heart and thinning of the muscle wall), elbow dysplasia (abnormal growth of tissues that leads to malformation and degeneration of the joint), epilepsy (brain seizures), hypothyroidism (underactive production of thyroid hormones), intervertebral disk disease (problems with the disks between the vertebrae of the spine leading to neurological problems), and hepatic portosystemic shunt (an abnormal blood circulation where blood is diverted around the liver rather than into it) are more prevalent in purebred dogs than in mixed - breed.

To determine whether Bengal cats have the alleged extra vertebrae any more often than other cats it would be necessary to x-ray or MRI scan hundreds of cats, both purebred and randombred, and compare the count of thoracic vertebrae.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the spinal cord column consists of more than 31 bones (or vertebrae), 7 cervical vertebrae (neck), 12 thoracic vertebrae (upper and middle back), 5 lumbar vertebrae (lower back), 5 sacral vertebrae (sacrum) and 2 fused coccygeal vertebrae (coccyx).

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.

A spinal cord injury is when a person suffers a sudden, traumatic blow that fractures, dislocates, crushes or compresses one or more of the vertebrae, damaging the spinal cord beneath.

More than half of those injuries result in paralysis and most of those result in total paralysis (loss of movement or sensation below the affected vertebrae).