Sentence examples for sacral elements from inspiring English sources

At the sacrococcygeal levels, the first three sacral elements contain an additional pair of ossification centres.

T1FS WI showed abnormal signal in the superior sacral elements (arrow in a).

CEMRI showed diffuse enhancement of the superior sacral elements (arrow in b) with spinal cord extension and focal lesions in the lumbar vertebrae.

Finally, the two central sacral elements are fused to each other through their articular surfaces.

The morphology of the transverse processes and sacral ribs also indicates that the internal sacral elements are the primordial sacrals.

The central sacral elements are the only sacrals that have fused their centra through their articular facets.

If Leonerasaurus is indeed a more basal anchisaurian sauropodomorph (e.g., the sister group of Anchisaurus), its sacral configuration must be explained as an evolutionary convergence between the new taxon and sauropods (paralleling the addition of a fourth sacral element).

We therefore used the sacral transverse process elements of the lateral masses as CRD landmarks.

In the outlet views, cephalad residual displacement (CRD) was recorded by measuring the difference in height between the top lateral prominences of the 2 sacral transverse process elements (Standring et al. 2008).

Because the hind limb is usually of greater importance in weight bearing, especially in bipedal vertebrates, it articulates with the vertebral column by means of the costal elements of the sacral vertebrae.

Furthermore, the sacral rib of the most anterior element of the sacrum resembles the dorsosacral vertebrae of other basal sauropodomorphs in being anteroposteriorly long, obliquely oriented, and attaching to the preacetabular region of the ilium (e.g., Lufengosaurus).