Sentences with phrase «vertebrae from»

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

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.

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.

I was in the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires when I came across a vertebra from a dinosaur's back.

It was a splendid surprise to come face - to - face with a fossil vertebra from the Jurassic rocks of Yorkshire that was clearly from a sauropod dinosaur

You'll benefit from practicing this pose toward the end of the sequence, because the previous poses will soften the larger back muscles that would otherwise prevent each vertebra from twisting to its full potential.

Here a vertebra from a 17 - foot modern anaconda (left) looks tiny next to a fossilized vertebra from the Titanoboa that lived in Colombia 60 million years ago.

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.

I happened on being wheat free 9 years ago, on my own from something I read on the web in regard to autistic children — actually found it not at all difficult to change, and as a result my life - long cronic anemia was gone in 6 weeks and also the osteoporosis in my 60's when I had 10 fractures — wrists, ribs, vertebrae, and a knee.

Though the Oilers were stunned when Cornerback Leroy Mitchell cracked a neck vertebra in camp, a cat named Zeke Moore from Lincoln University is filling the spot adequately.

Brazil's evening has been soured somewhat with news reports emanating from the country that superstar forward Neymar will miss the rest of the tournament with a suspected broken vertebrae, suffered in a brutal quarter final victory over Colombia.

Thankfully it landed on all four wheels again but Delomier was reportedly released from the medical centre with an injury to his vertebrae.

The use of the Belly Sling prevents gravity from pulling on the belly and stressing the lumbar vertebrae, uterine structure, and posterior muscles.

It generates movement in the lumbar spine, eliminating any form of pressure from the disc and lumbar spine vertebrae thus relieving any pregnancy symptoms.

Myhrvold, Currie and Dhileep Sivam, also of Intellectual Ventures, unveiled a quarter - scale physical model of an Apatosaurus tail made from aluminum vertebrae and steel tendons.

Not everyone has the standard 33 vertebrae: From top to tail, that's seven cervical, 12 thoracic, five lumbar, five sacral and four coccygeal.

Despite claims that helmets do not protect the cervical spine during a motorcycle crash and may even increase the risk of injury, researchers from the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison found that, during an accident, helmet use lowers the likelihood of cervical spine injury (CSI), particularly fractures of the cervical vertebrae.

But it also had numerous theropodlike characteristics, from the air spaces in its vertebrae to its stocky arms (although they ended in thick, short fingers rather than sharp claws).

His top vertebra and skull were completely detached from the rest of his spinal column.

It weighed as much as 6 metric tons, was up to 11 meters long, and sported a long, narrow skull and bony spines poking up from its vertebrae that probably supported a ridge made of tough muscle.

Technology to the rescue: A CT scan of one such lump (left, main image) revealed that it held a vertebra (plastic model, right) from a Plateosaurus (artist's concept, inset), the researchers report online today in Radiology.

His vertebrae show signs of osteoarthritis from years of pounding in the saddle.

The study published in PLOS ONE describes eight different types of fossil snakes from the Rukwa Rift (five colubroid and three booid), with vertebrae ranging in length from 2.6 mm to just over 5 mm.

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.

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.»

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.

Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Texas at Austin examined 19 pregnant women and discovered a number of reinforcements in their backs that men lack, including a lumbar (lower back) curve that spans three instead of two vertebrae and spinal joints that are 14 percent larger and positioned differently.

So it seems that the sloth's extra neck vertebra has, in a strange quirk of embryology, been modified from the ribcage.

Nobody knows what advantage the sloths get from their extra vertebra.

The vertebra (backbone) originates from a group of dinosaurs that includes the largest land animals to have ever walked on Earth.

In contrast, modern birds, which evolved from dinosaurs, have much shorter stubs of tails called pygostyles, formed by fusing several vertebrae.

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.

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 opacity of TSNs was high enough to be clearly distinguished from the nearby ribs and vertebrae.

Researchers also examined the archaeological materials from the original excavations and identified several new fragments of vertebrae and ribs of La Ferrassie 1.

Many animals are built from reiterated parts, such as the segments and appendages of arthropods and the somites and vertebrae of vertebrates.

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).

It was found in Kansas and described by the famous US scientist Edward Drinker Cope (1840 — 97, Fig. 2), who, when he first wrote about it in 1868, believed that the almost complete series of 72 neck vertebrae came from a massively long tail.

Upon further examination, Love and Tufts found a large fossilized vertebrae protruding from a rock.

The cartilaginous discs between each vertebra develop from an embryonic structure called the notochord.

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.

Recent guidelines published in the Annals of Internal Medicine pointed out that the amount of radiation absorbed by the ovaries from a single X-ray of the lumbar spine (the five lower vertebrae) is equivalent to the amount they would absorb from a year's worth of

The muscle fibers in the latissimus dorsi extend from the lower thoracic vertebrae, and the iliac crest in the hip, and then they join at the upper part of the humerus in the upper arm next to the shoulder.

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.

Then, rolling your spine from the top vertebrae, lift your hips in the air, keeping your shoulders on the mat, to form a bridge with your body.

The nerves that emerge from between the cervical vertebrae control the eyes, muscles of the face, the neck, shoulders, arms, esophagus, heart and lungs.

Now exhale and roll down from the bridge back to the starting position, articulating through your spine one vertebra at a time.

The vertebrae can fail to form completely or fail to separate from each other during fetal development.

To release from the pose, as you inhale slowly come back up into Mountains Pose, restacking one vertebrae at a time and the head should come up last.

Stand with your feet hip - width apart and slowly begin to roll from the neck down, vertebrae by vertebrae, until your body is folded and your arms and neck are hanging loosely.