Sentences with phrase «vertebra bone»

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.

A transverse process is a bony protrusion from the back of a vertebrae bone in the spine.

Treatment for a Spinal Cord Injury The spinal cord is a complex network of nerves that travels the length of the spine, is protected by the spinal column (vertebrae bones that give the spine its shape), and is responsible for communication between the brain and the rest of the body.

Not exact matches

Also, while vertebrae are often in the shadow of the muscles that support them, the sacrum is a broad, triangular and flat bone above the cleavage of the buttocks and will catch the light, dividing the spine - shadow from the butt crack.

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.

Itching may be pronounced and, in some cases, there is bone pain that relates to compression fractures of the vertebra.

When a baby is born, neck vertebrae is «composed of separate portions of bone joined by cartilage, in other words, the baby's skeleton is still soft».

Jeffts lead him to the scene, and they saw a pelvic bone with a hip socket, a thigh bone and vertebrae.

The ligaments in the spine of a 20 - ton diplodocus, seen here in an X-ray, had hardened into bone, fusing two vertebrae together.

The cage is implanted between the vertebrae to maintain space for regenerating bone.

At this location, for instance, Horner and two colleagues have collected lizard skull fragments; shards of turtle shell; fish teeth, scales, and vertebrae; even a handful of dinosaur toe bones.

In 1996, researchers discovered that low density bones and fractured vertebra seem to accompany a different form, or allele, of a gene called COLIA1.

They examined the vertebrae, the bird - like bone that fuses the wrist and knuckle known as the carpometacarpus, and pieces of what would be the fingers or toes, known as the phalanx.

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.

«In their bones, in their feathers, in their vertebrae, in their earwax.»

The remarkable specimen — which includes nine skeletal elements from one individual, including the thoracic vertebrae and the femoral bones — is being heralded as the «best preserved hesperornithiform material from Asia» and to be «the first report of the hesperorinthiforms from the eastern margin of the Eurasian Continent.»

After sorting through hundreds of bones excavated by paleontologists Suresh Srivastava and Ashok Sahni during a 1983 expedition in the Narmada River valley in western India, Sereno and Wilson realized they were looking at the braincase, parts of a hip, a vertebra, and a tailbone of a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.

O'Driscoll also noted that most projectile impact marks were located on vertebrae or rib bones and that 17 % percent of the marks overall — and 50 % of the punctures — held microscopic bits of embedded stone from the flint points, due to the high velocity of impact.

«To achieve their extraordinary length, giraffe cervical vertebrae and leg bones have evolved to be greatly extended,» Cavener said.

In mammals and dinosaurs, each vertebra is made of two bones that slowly fuse over time: the main, often cylindrical body of the vertebra called the centrum and the arc of bone that houses the spinal cord, called the neural arch.

BONE UP New 3 - D printed bone scaffolds, such as this one of human vertebrae, may speed up the healing process, researchers BONE UP New 3 - D printed bone scaffolds, such as this one of human vertebrae, may speed up the healing process, researchers bone scaffolds, such as this one of human vertebrae, may speed up the healing process, researchers say.

Twenty million years older than the oldest known fossil of a direct turtle ancestor, Eunotosaurus africanus has broadened ribs inside its body and elongated vertebrae in its spine compared with other reptiles, but those bones aren't fully fused to form an external shell as is the case in modern turtles.

Over time, trauma to the vertebrae induces dormant cells to activate, and the tail will regenerate with an underlying tube of cartilage rather than separate vertebral bones.

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

On this occasion, for the first time ever, the Theoretical Biology Group added the head muscles and cartilages to the study of the skull bones (including the inner ear bones, the jaw and the bones that connect with head muscles, such as cervical vertebrae and clavicles).

The second change involved in the transition to frogs and toads from other amphibians was in the sacral ribs, broad bones attached to a vertebra which in most land - living vertebrates fit below and inside the pelvis to hold it fixed relative to the backbone.

Those bones comprised four vertebrae and a 5 - millimetre - long limb bone.

In frogs, these vertebrae have shrunk further and fused into a single hollow bone called a urostyle.

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 human spine is made up of 24 bones, called vertebrae, stacked on top of one another.

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.

Ageing XpdTTD / TTD mice develop kyphosis (curvature of the spinal column) and reduction of bone mineral density as shown in the 6 — 8 segment of the tail vertebrae counted from the pelvis (see close - up at right).

A fossil vertebra (a bone that makes up part of the spine) pokes through rocks in the Hell Creek Formation.

The remains contain an estimated 20 percent of the carnivorous dinosaur — which lived 145 - 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period — including an intact skull, vertebrae, ribs, hips and lower jaw bones.

Analysis of the digital X-ray pictures is generally performed with respect to bones from the head (zygomatic bone, maxilla, mandibles), teeth, scapulae, clavicle, ribs (number, shape, fusion), pelvis, vertebrae (numbers, shape and potential fusion of cervical, thoracic, lumbar, pelvic and caudal ones), limb bones (humerus, radius, ulna, femur, tibia), joints, digits and syndactylism.

A common effect of multiple myeloma is osteoporosis, and as a consequence patients develop intense back pain as their vertebrae become compressed as well as bone fractures.

According to most definitions, the trapezius muscles are large, diamond - shaped surface muscles that extend longitudinally from the occipital bone to the lower thoracic vertebrae and laterally to the spine of the scapula.

The latissimus dorsi is a major upper back muscle that connects the vertebrae in the thorax and lumbar regions and the iliac crest of the hip bone to the humerus bone of the upper arm.

I'm not a radiologist or an oncologist, but even to my untrained eye, it looked worrisome - this big black hole where the bone of her C4 vertebrae in her spine should be.

When your spine is out of alignment or misaligned, the small ligaments that hold the vertebras together and the small muscles that move those bones become irritated and inflamed.

Upon being assessed by a doctor and / or physical therapist or chiropractor, many people find their spine is healthy; the pain is coming from the muscles around the spine and causing the vertebrae (back bones) and pelvis (hips) to move out of place, which is causing the pain.

In a two - year study published in 2000 in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Japanese researchers observed that subjects receiving supplemental vitamin K2 showed 52 percent fewer incidences of fractures of the vertebrae, compared with those patients who were not provided with the supplement.

The newly - formed bone bridges the gap between the vertebrae and becomes inflexible and stiff.

So twisting the vertebra is one of the few ways to get all of the vertebrae under some compression and stimulate bone growth in the vertebrae.

The skeleton's vertebrae and ribs were so straightly and intimately joined, their ligaments perfectly bony, and their articulations so effaced, that they comprise one uniform continuous bone.

A dislocated vertebrae is a displacement of one of the small bones in the neck (which form the spine) in relation to the others.

Intervertebral discs separate the bones of the spine (or vertebrae) and their function is to act as shock absorbers for the spine and allow movement.

In some cases, poor health is associated with bone injury, such as osteoporosis where reduced bone density contributes to a compression fracture (collapsed vertebrae).

The other side of the muscle attaches to the inferior (bottom) of the scapula bone, the last 3 - 4 ribs on the posterior (back) side, the thoracolumbar fascia (connective tissue for the five lumbar vertebrae) and the iliac crest on the posterior (back) side.

Spinal discs are located between vertebra and act like pads to separate and cushion these bones.