Sentences with word «vertebra»

The number of vertebrae in individual Homo sapiens actually varies between 32 and 35, with the biggest range of difference in the pelvic area.

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.

When disks between vertebrae in the cervical (neck) or thoracolumbar (chest and back) areas of the spine degenerate, the inner disk material can protrude or rupture into the spinal canal.

Arrows indicate large articulation facets of cervical ribs on a fossil cervical vertebra of a woolly rhino of Naturalis, Leiden.

(True sciatic pain occurs when the sciatic nerve is pinched by lumbar vertebrae at the nerve root, or trapped under or inbetween tight deep hip rotator muscles.)

There are no statistics on the frequency of extra thoracic vertebrae in cats.

Suffering from a broken vertebra at age 15, his life journey has been dedicated to the pursuit of yoga and its therapeutic applications.

Represented clients in multiple jury trials in individual disability cases, including a claim by the principal of one of the country's largest Social Security disability law firms based on deep vein thrombosis; a claim by an orthopedic surgeon / expert witness based on injuries in car accident; a claim by a practicing dentist based on fractured vertebra; a claim by a sales representative based on spinal injuries.

Carol Jane Pachl, pretty 17 - year - old Czechoslovakian - born skater, her back frozen to deaden pain of broken vertebrae suffered in fall at Olympic Games, courageously glided to second Canadian figure - skating title at Gait, Ont.

Natanson and co-author Gregory Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries examined the banding patterns on vertebrae from white sharks collected between 1963 and 2010 by the NOAA Fisheries Apex Predators Program.

The spinal cord, a group of nerves protected by vertebrae, drives movement and feeling.

Researchers from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden examined woolly rhino and modern rhino neck vertebrae from several European and American museum collections and noticed that the remains of woolly rhinos from the North Sea often possess a «cervical» (neck) rib — in contrast to modern rhinos.

Wobbler Syndrome - abnormality of the neck vertebrae causing rear leg ataxia which may progress to paralysis.

CranioSacral Therapy addresses restrictions between the skull and cervical vertebra with a gentle light touch approach that provides the body an opportunity to relax and heal.

Vulnerability to such a form of arthritis has a genetic component — which may explain the fused vertebrae of the remains of his brother and son.

If your dog pulls, or barks and lunges at anything at all, a harness will distribute the force of the pull or lunge across the torso and protect delicate cervical vertebrae as well as tracheal, esophageal and other throat structures.

Poor posture and subluxated spinal vertebrae cause spinal joint receptors to fire abnormal, corrupted feedback patterns into the brain (13).

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.

A tight psoas can cause serious postural problems: when you stand up, it pulls the low back vertebrae forward and down toward the femur, often resulting in lordosis (overarching in the lumbar spine), which is a common cause of low back pain and stiffness; it can also contribute to arthritis in the lumbar facet joints.

(C) Quantification of relative bone mineral density of tail vertebrae from 20 - mo - old male wt (n = 3), XpdTTD / † XPCS (n = 4), and XpdTTD / TTD (n = 3) mice.

Nichols hung on desperately, but when Amastar nearly went down, he was thrown heavily to the ground, suffering compressed fractures of several vertebrae between his shoulders as well as two dislocated toes.

In snakes, which are the most extreme example of extra vertebrae in the animal kingdom, it is controlled by the Oct4 gene.

More specifically, she had a subluxated atlas — a biomechanical abnormality of the first vertebra in the neck which connects to the skull.

The origins and insertions of the erector spinae span the thoracic and lumbar regions of the spine, and have attachment sites on individual vertebrae at spinal processes, the medial crest of the sacrum, and inner lip of the posterior iliac crest, as well as some fibers being continuous with the origin of the gluteus maximus (Carvalhais et al. 2013).

Trauma - room surgeons had operated to stabilize a dislocated vertebra in the middle of his back, he learned.

This generally results in damage to the soft tissues that hold the cervical vertebrae together.

The lower back is supported by the lumbar vertebrae which also control the muscles in the buttock region, certain areas of the legs and genitals, the region of the back closest to the hips, and the lower stomach region.

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

• Ab training at the beginning of your strength or cardio workout — ab exercises generally involve movement of your spine and your spine is a large and complex joint consisting of 33 individual bones called vertebrae.

The fused sacral vertebrae are hard to visualize because they are within the pelvis.

A necropsy on the Malibu whale showed it had suffered crushed vertebrae and bleeding consistent with a ship strike.

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

We are not aware of Aussies with transitional vertebrae having any difficulties because of the condition.

Patrick had two teeth knocked out and suffered damaged vertebrae in the deliberate collision and of course West Germany went on to win after penalties, a result even more insulting due to the fact that Schumacher saved two spot - kicks!

If surgery is performed the surgeon tries to open up the channel in vertebrae where the spinal cord goes by removing some bone where it presses on the nerves.

Similar benefits were obtained using castrated male rats and reported in 2006, with dried plum completely preventing the castration - induced decrease in whole body, femur, and lumbar vertebra bone mineral density.

Extra thoracic vertebrae don't cause problems and cats don't have routine chest screening x-rays so any extras will go unnoticed.

Today on In Case You Missed It: An Australian neurologist successfully used 3D printed replacements for vertebrae to save a man who would have died from cancer otherwise.

Traditional situps do little to flatten your abdominal muscles, and also overtrain your hip flexors, the long muscles that attach your thighs to the lumbar vertebrae along your spine in your lower back.

In cases where a disc in the upper vertebrae around the neck is affected, the dog will likely have difficulty holding its neck and head up.

Mays first noticed the skeleton's deformed vertebrae while analyzing it during the 1980s at a museum in the sleepy village of Tarrant Hinton, near England's southwest coast.

The spinal cord can be injured when vertebrae in the spine are fractured or dislocated, impacting the surrounding tissue.

The large whale vertebra in the foreground is evidence of their activities, which ended in the 1930s.

Three large vertebrae, believed to be that of an ancient, gigantic shark, have been discovered in Texas by members of the Paleontology Club of the University...

The discovery nearly two decades ago of nine beautifully articulated vertebrae at Big Bend National Park is shedding new light on a 66 million - year - old sauropod native to Texas and the North American southwest called Alamosaurus sanjuanensis.

Yet, as a rule, the number of trunk vertebrae varies little between most mammal species.

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.

Hemi Vertebrae becomes visible to their owners by the dog's rear movement.

Injuries to the C3 & C4 vertebrae resulting in complete damage can cause complete paralysis or quadriplegia.