Sentences with phrase «use cadavers»

To date, muscle moment arm studies using cadavers or computerised models have not been able to provide data on the moment arm lengths of the trapezius during its primary actions.

Case in point, researchers are using cadaver microbiomes to gain understanding into time of death for criminal cases since the microbiome survives you.

Also, four months after my ACD surgery (2 discs removed from my vertebrae and then three vertebrae fused together using cadaver bones) I made another attempt to get off the pain pills.

Large animal surgery elective laboratories in semester 6 are taught using cadaver parts (e.g. limbs, skulls) and live sheep that are recovered from some procedures and then euthanized after more invasive procedures.

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In a room normally used for dissecting cadavers, McConnell convenes a meeting highlighting what he says is the Obama administration's «war on coal.»

But no federal law governs the sale of cadavers or body parts for use in research or education.

Other uses include taking Batarangs off your utility belt and throwing them and running a hand - held scanner over a cadaver to find clues to crime scenes.

Dr David Jones, Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's College, London, has pointed out that he does not accept that brain death can be assumed for any cadaver with a beating - heart, and challenges the ethical acceptability of the use of any such cadaver for donor purposes [13].

Ray, If you take a huge crap on the building, how will the dogs used to sniff out cadavers be able to distinguish between the smell of human feces and muslim remains?

One of the questions patients frequently ask is which type of ACL graft should be used for my surgery: bone - tendon - bone, hamstring, or cadaver?

Simanowitz said the legislation was sparked by a lawsuit filed earlier this month by the city's only mortuary school, The American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, seeking to have the city resume its 50 - year practice of turning over cadavers for its students to use.

In court papers, the school's attorney argued that without cadavers for its students to use the school could lose its accreditation.

The main problem is that it is extremely difficult to measure electrical activity deep inside the brain of a living person, and differences between the brains of living people and those of the animals and cadavers that previous studies have used are significant.

Kerr says the law concerning the extraction and use of sperm from cadavers in the US is unclear.

ASMI researchers are involved in different fields such as biomechanics (motion analysis, which includes cadaver research, namely, the use of human limbs to analyze anatomy, motion, and the strength of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones) and clinical research (tracking patients to see how successful they are returning to sport after treatment with surgery or physical therapy).

Some essays delve into scientific history, such as miniature crime scenes used in forensic science and the history of cadavers in the study of anatomy.

Using cells from cadavers, doctors have been experimentally transplanting pancreatic islets into humans for decades, but as many as 60 percent of the transplanted islets die immediately because they are cut off from their blood supply and are killed by an immune response due to direct injection into the bloodstream, and those that survive the transplant usually die within several months.

The document asks the public for its views on the use of eggs taken from fetuses, cadavers or living women donors, either to treat infertile couples, or to carry out basic research.

Now, a study that used noninvasive brain imaging to evaluate brain activity has found that simulator - trained medical students successfully transferred those skills to operating on cadavers and were faster than peers who had no simulator training.

«They weren't buried, but distributed to different medical schools in the city to be used as cadavers in anatomy classes.

After practice operations on 25 cadavers, Michler was pleased to discover some unexpected advantages: «I'm right - handed, but with the system I use my left hand a lot more.

Longer than that, and they have to turn to the beetles and flies that take up residence in cadavers, using their age and natural succession to estimate the time of death.

Cell transplantation as a treatment for diabetes is still essentially experimental, uses cells from cadavers, requires the use of powerful immunosuppressive drugs, and has been available to only a very small number of patients.

• Fred Gage and his colleagues at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, harvested brain cells from human cadavers and used them to form neural progenitor cells, precursors to adult human brain cells.

Because she taught in the physical therapy department at the university's medical school, Bruckner had access to the cadavers used in anatomy classes.

Next, the team used two fresh flamingo cadavers to find an anatomical explanation.

The hormone had been isolated from cadavers, and much of the trial centered on whether appropriate purification standards were used, an issue that resulted in several prominent scientists being called to the witness stand.

He says that the authorities should have halted the use of cadaver - derived human growth hormone when the first case of CJD was linked to the substance and detected in the United States.

It happened only a few days after a student accidentally pricked Kolletschka with a scalpel that had been used to dissect a cadaver.

That postulation turned out to be correct: the Belgian doctors are the first to provide a full anatomical description of the ligament after a broad cadaver study using macroscopic dissection techniques.

The 2003 book by Mary Roach takes a sweeping look at everything from cadaver farms, where donated bodies rot slowly outside in the name of science, to the use of human bodies as crash - test dummies.

When dissecting a cadaver, a knife is used to separate the bundles of muscles.

Prior to this date, growth hormone used to treat growth hormone deficiency was extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers.

Muscle fascicles are most commonly measured using ultrasound, either directly from sonographic images or using algorithms to measure them indirectly, but direct measurement in cadavers is preferable.

In contrast to other studies identifying upper and lower regions using either EMG or MMG, Gibbons and Mottram (2004) performed an anatomical dissection study of the gluteus maximus muscles of 12 cadavers.

Currently, the gold standard method for estimating muscle fascicle lengths for individual muscles is to measure them in cadavers with callipers and this approach is still used to validate more modern methods involving scans (Kellis et al. 2009; Noorkoiv et al. 2010; Ando et al. 2014).

The gluteus maximus is the largest muscle in the body by cross-sectional area, with measurements in cadavers reaching 48.4 cm ² (Pohtilla, 1969; Ito et al. 2003), and measurements taken in living subjects using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scans reaching 58.3 ± 10.3 cm ² (Arokoski et al. 2002; Kamaz et al. 2007; Wu et al. 2009; Ahedi et al. 2014; Yasuda et al. 2014; Niinimäki et al. 2015; Uemura et al. 2015).

For a taste of the specific and indescribable quality of the character, she thinks up seven uses for a cadaver that might be in the hearse they borrow for their ghost - hunting adventures.

For the purposes of this subsection, «service dog» means a dog owned, used, or in training by any police or fire department, rescue, or first response squad, ambulance corps, or search and rescue organization for the purposes of locating criminals and lost persons, or detecting illegal substances, explosives, cadavers, accelerants, or school or correctional facility contraband.

Currently basic surgical skills are taught to all third year DVM students using models, cadavers, and dogs and cats from humane societies that undergo neutering procedures during semester 5 of the curriculum.

German Shepherds also make excellent search and rescue dogs, detection dogs (arson, drugs, cadaver, explosive and mines, and other things), and they are often used for police and military work.

Firemen use German Shepherds to search for survivors or cadavers.

Additionally, many that have shifted to cadavers, are in fact still using shelter animals that were euthanized for this purpose.

Working Dog Breeds are used as hunting dogs, therapy dogs, guide dogs, assistance dogs, mascots, tracking and fighting dogs, detection dogs, with their guard dog instincts they were used as herding dogs, war dogs, as well as a police dog and cadaver dog.

It has, however, been used for animal cadavers for a while.

In The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South, authors Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington lay out what happened; how the state's legal system aided and abetted the use of flawed forensic evidence; how systemic racism influenced Mississippi's coroner system; and the stories of some of the innocent people whose lives were derailed.