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The vertebra of the neck unite on nearly flat surfaces, the humerus had lost the foramen, or perforation, at the lower end, and the third trochanter to the femur may have also been wanting.
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This allows C7 to contribute directly to increased neck length and has given rise to the suggestion that T1 is actually C8, and that giraffes have added an extra cervical vertebra.
An azhdarchid neck vertebra, discovered in 2002 from the Maastrichtian age Hell Creek Formation, may also belong to Quetzalcoatlus.
File: Gray384. png | Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra
File: Gray384. png | Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra.
BioRID is more sophisticated in its spinal construction than Hybrid ; 24 vertebra simulators allow BioRID to assume a much more natural seating posture, and to demonstrate the neck movement and configuration seen in rear-end collisions.
Grace died the next day, on 14 September, while Stéphanie sustained a hairline fracture of a neck vertebra.
It usually starts from the level of the second lumbar vertebra and extends to the root of the neck.
When Marsh was at Haddonfield examining one of Cope's fossil finds — a complete skeleton of a large aquatic plesiosaur, Elasmosaurus, that had four flippers and a long neck — he commented that the fossil's head was on the wrong end, evidently stating that Cope had put the skull at the end of the vertebra of the tail.
Image: Gray384. png | Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra
Suitable targets for the knife hand strike include the mastoid muscles of the neck, the jugular, the throat, the collar bones, the 3rd vertebra ( key stone of the spinal column ), the upper arm, the wrist ( knife hand block ), the elbow ( outside knife hand block ), and the knee cap ( leg throw ).
The neck is longer than the vertebra under its carapace and is fringed with small skin flaps along both sides.
The type specimen had an incomplete neck with 14 vertebra preserved and none of these were complete.
It had 18 neck vertebra.
Morgan was hospitalized April 22, 2004 with a fractured vertebra in his neck after falling outside the Asheville Regional Airport while returning home from what would be his last airshow appearance at the Sun ' n ' Fun airshow in Lakeland, Florida.
Image: Gray384. png | Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra.
Other remains included a cervical ( neck ) vertebra, two caudal ( tail ) vertebrae, the distal end of a tibia, a fibula, and a osteoderm.
The vertebrae are extremely elongated, with the largest one having an overall length of, making it the longest sauropod neck vertebra on record.
He bruised his neck and wrenched a vertebra but was able to leave the hospital.
Image: Gray384. png | Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra.
A dorsal may have been converted into a cervical vertebra, for a total of 16 vertebrae in the neck.
In his first year with the Texans, Headrick set the standard for playing hurt, after fracturing a vertebra in his neck in a pre-game collision at Houston.
Image: Gray384. png | Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra.
Image: Gray384. png | Section of the neck at about the level of the sixth cervical vertebra.
A tiny neck vertebra reported from the Wadhurst Clay Formation of England shares some features in common with oviraptorosaurs, and may represent an earlier occurrence of this group ( at about 140 million years ago ).
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Also in order to support the increased weight on each vertebra in the upright position the human vertebral column became S-shaped and the lumbar vertebrae became shorter and wider.
Despite this association with the remains of a large carnivorous dinosaur, the vertebra shows no evidence that it was chewed on by the dinosaur.
The prezygapophyses began on the tenth tail ( caudal ) vertebra and extended forward to brace four to ten additional vertebrae, depending on position in the tail.
In the early tetrapods, every vertebra bore a pair of ribs, although those on the thoracic vertebrae are typically the longest.
Mammals usually also only have distinct ribs on the thoracic vertebra, although fixed cervical ribs are also present in monotremes.
Conversely, it is possible to injure the spinal cord without breaking the spine, such as when a ruptured disc or bony spur on the vertebra protrudes into the spinal column.
V. Strang, D. C., describes several hypotheses on how a misaligned vertebra may cause interference to the nervous system in his book, Essential Principles of Chiropractic:
Superior and inferior articular facets on each vertebra act to restrict the range of movement possible.
The human trachea ( windpipe ) divides into two main bronchi ( also mainstem bronchi ), the left and the right, at the level of the sternal angle and of the fifth thoracic vertebra or up to two vertebrae higher or lower, depending on breathing, at the anatomical point known as the carina.
However, on April 14 during a practice session at Long Beach, he crashed into a concrete barrier and suffered a fractured vertebra which forced him to miss the race and the next one in Houston.
Cement in a vertebra as seen on plain Xray.
Near the vertebra body, the spine cross section is laterally compressed into a rectangular shape, and closer to the tip, it takes on a figure-eight shape as a groove runs along either side of the spine.
Karin Peyer, in 2006, reported skin impressions preserved on the side of the tail starting at the 13th tail vertebra.
It is behind the stomach and the omental bursa, and in front of the crura of the diaphragm, on the level of the first lumbar vertebra, L1.
Any forward slipping of one vertebra on another can cause spinal stenosis by narrowing the canal.
In one study on 142 individuals after one year of complete paraplegia, none of the patients where the initial injury was above the ninth thoracic vertebra ( T9 ) were able to recover completely.
The cervical ribs were remarkably long as well, with the longest measurable rib ( on vertebra 6 ) measuring – about 18 % longer than the longest rib reported for Giraffatitan, but exceeded in length by the cervical ribs of Mamenchisaurus.
** The anterior and posterior surfaces are flattened and of equal depth ; the former is placed on a lower level than the latter, and its inferior border is prolonged downward, so as to overlap the upper and forepart of the vertebra below.
The first thoracic vertebra has, on either side of the body, an entire articular facet for the head of the first rib, and a demi-facet for the upper half of the head of the second rib.
The body is like that of a cervical vertebra, being broad, concave, and lipped on either side.
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