Sentence examples for upper vertebrae from inspiring English sources

Osteochondrosis characteristically attacks the upper vertebrae of prodigious young piano players, whose spinal columns bend like canes toward the keyboard.

In all these cases, the neurosurgeons found damage to arteries that are located close to the upper vertebrae and supply part of the brain with blood and oxygen.

The branch was four inches thick and fell 20 feet on Wednesday morning, putting a gash in the man's skull, damaging his upper vertebrae and causing a partial lung collapse.

The archaeologist, Jo Appleby, noted signature characteristics that pointed strongly to Richard: a deformed spine, what she has described as a mortal battlefield wound in the back of the skull from a bladed instrument and a barbed metal arrowhead found between two upper vertebrae.

The bullet enters the right side of the victim's neck, coursing through the tissue of the neck and into the upper vertebrae, where the round is recovered.

Consensus regarding the optimal upper vertebra to be instrumented during surgical treatment of Lenke 5C thoracolumbar and lumbar adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) remains limited.

The indication for PLIF was predominantly a low-grade (i.e., less than 50% slip of the upper vertebra) spondylolisthesis on the basis of spondylolysis, i.e., a congenital breach in the processus articulares, in 11 of 15 cases.

Alternatively, in the case of an extensive MC involving most of the vertebral body, we selected an area in the vertebral body of the upper vertebra not affected with MC.

A frequently performed treatment of the segmental instability caused by low-grade lumbar spondylolisthesis (0% to 50% anterior slip of the upper vertebra) is posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF).

X-rays revealed an osteolytic lesion eroding the anterior cortex, the superior endplate involving the upper vertebra (fig. 1).

The upper vertebra was rotated about the center of rotation in flexion and extension to the physiological rotations.