Sentences with phrase «spinal defects»

In severe cases, taillessness is also clearly associated other spinal defects which can have major health consequences for the cat.

Reabsorbtion of defective fetuses can impact litter size and some puppies may be born with significant lower spinal defects which require euthanasia of the puppy.

The team's insights not only illuminate normal vertebrate development but also could lead to improved understanding of human spinal defects such as scoliosis, said Pourquié, who is also the Harvard Medical School Frank Burr Mallory Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a principal faculty member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

X-rays and an endoscopy further illuminate what can not be seen, and an MRI of the pelvis and spine are often done to look for spinal defects.

They were born with a genetic spinal defect causing incontinence.

I have irritable bowl syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, scoliosis, spinabifada acolta, and numerous other spinal defects and problems.

It's typically rare and you know and you know from a fetal perspective for instance if you have twins and one baby is normal but the other one isn't so if one baby had a spinal defect or something like that then we might actually recommend we would recommend a C - section instead of a vaginal delivery for the safety of the baby.

It is also very rarely associated with slightly diminished cognitive function, cleft lip, intestinal and spinal defects, and other congenital disorders.

Although true urinary incontinence, the inability to control the bladder muscles, is rare in cats and is usually due to improper nerve function from a spinal defect, most of the time, a cat that is urinating in «naughty» locations is having a problem and is trying to get you to notice.

Some of the most common conditions affecting this breed include hip dysplasia, patellar luxation, cataracts, epilepsy, collie eye abnormality, and spinal defects.

Adults are more susceptible to cauda equina syndrome than children, although it does sometimes occur in children who were born with a spinal defect (e.g., spina bifida) or who have undergone spinal injury.