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unusual facts about spine



Abraham Valdelomar

On a tour of Ayacucho, in the Huamanga province, he suffered a fall that led to a fractured spine and severe concussions; he died next day, aged 31.

Adam Wicheard

An MRI scan revealed he had a ruptured tumour in his spine which required an emergency 7 hour operation, followed by 6 months of recovery in hospital with Wicheard lying flat in bed unable to move for the first 4 months.

Argentiniformes

The hypaxial muscle is unusually extended to forward at its upper end and attaches to the neurocranium below the spine, perhaps to snap the upper part of the skull down when catching prey.

Catholic Medical Center

The orthopedic surgeons now have access to the new O-ARM Imaging System, a high definition CT scan that provides real-time three dimensional images during spine surgery.

Cervical spine disorder

Furthermore, tomographic tests are able to provide detailed valuations of cervical spine and the injuries and use Magnetic resonance imaging but increase a patients exposure to radiation.

Chaos Wastes

The mighty empire of Cathay has built a huge wall, known as 'The Dragon's Spine' (similar to the Great Wall of China) to protect their lands from invasion from the Chaos Wastes.

CrossFit

According to Dr. Stuart McGill, a professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo, the risk of injury from some CrossFit exercises outweighs their benefits when they are performed with poor form in timed workouts.

Dallas Cowboys

The most serious injuries were special teams coach Joe DeCamillis, who suffered fractured cervical vertebrae and had surgery to stabilize fractured vertebrae in his neck, and Rich Behm, the team's 33-year-old scouting assistant, who was permanently paralyzed from the waist down after his spine was severed.

Débora Lyra

On December 27, 2011, Débora Lyra was involved in a severe car crash, for which her spleen has been removed and some interventions in her spine where due.

Dendritic spine

The actin cytoskeleton directly determines the morphology of the spine, and actin regulators, small GTPases such as Rac, RhoA, and CDC42, rapidly modify this cytoskeleton.

Dinoponera longipes

Males can be distinguished from other Dinoponera by the following combination of character states: funiculus of antennae with short, thick decumbent setae; pygidial spine shorter than in Dinoponera gigantea and Dinoponera quadriceps but longer and narrower than in Dinoponera australis and Dinoponera snellingi, volsella with broad basal lobe covered in minute teeth.

Disc protrusion

A disc protrusion is a disease condition which can occur in some vertebrates, including humans, in which the outermost layers of the annulus fibrosus of the intervertebral discs of the spine are intact, but bulge when one or more of the discs are under pressure.

Ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase 1

Mutations in this gene have been associated with Idiopathic infantile arterial calcification, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the spine (OPLL), and insulin resistance.

Errivaspis

A rostral plate formed a pointed ‘snout’, several small plates around the mouth, and a dorsal spine pointing backwards.

Frankia alni

One species, Alnus glutinosa, is also found in Africa and another, the Andean alder, Alnus acuminata, extends down the mountainous spine of Central and South America as far as Argentina.

Galant reflex

It is elicited by holding the newborn in ventral suspension (face down) and stroking along the one side of the spine.

George Napoleon Epps

In 1859 he published a work, On Deformities of the Spine and on Club Foot.

Gisborne region

A spine of rough ridges dominates the centre of the region, culminating in the impressive bulk of the 1620 metre Mount Hikurangi in Waiapu Valley in the region's northeast.

Halcrow Group

The Thames Hub combines rail, freight logistics, aviation, renewable energy and its transmission, flood protection and regional development in the Thames Estuary and connects this infrastructure to a trade and utilities spine that runs the length of the UK.

Horsea Island

In the 1950s the lake was used in the testing of improved Martin Baker Ejection Seats, following catapult launch mishaps on carriers in which Fleet Air Arm aircrew often sustained serious compression injuries to the spine after ejecting from submerged aircraft.

Human pelvis

The medial tract has a "straight" (interspinales, intertransversarii, and spinalis) and an "oblique" (multifidus and semispinalis) component, both of which stretch between vertebral processes; the former acts similar to the muscles of the lateral tract, while the latter function unilaterally as spine extensors and bilaterally as spine rotators.

Hump

Kyphosis, the curve on an upper spine that causes a hunchback

Ian Handysides

After a course of chemotherapy, he appeared to be recovering well, however this then spread to his spine and he died in Solihull on 17 August 1990, when still only 27 years old.

Intervertebral disc damage and spaceflight

During the 84-day Skylab 4 mission, the spine elongation of one astronaut was measured and recorded to the 1/16th inch (Thornton, 1987).

Kasper Bjørke

Two singles from the album, "Back and Spine" and "Doesn't Matter", both appeared on rotation on Danish P3 radio.

Kentucky Speedway

During the 2002 IndyCar race at the track, Jason Priestley suffered a concussion and fractures to his thoracic spine and feet, becoming the first major injury to occur at the speedway.

Kerinci Seblat National Park

The park area includes a large part of the Barisan mountain range which form the western spine of Sumatra island and includes the highest peak in Sumatra, Mount Kerinci (3,805 m), one of more than five active volcanoes in the national park.

Khan Kinetic Treatment

The KKT spine treatment device is supported and advanced by continuing partnerships and studies in both McGill University (source?) and the University of Calgary.

Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France

Louis Joseph died at age seven of tuberculosis of the spine amidst the political turmoil and power machinations surrounding the Estates-General of 1789, for which period his parents' actions were so heavily criticized, giving rise to the deterioration of relations with the Estates.

Love River

Love River is the spine of Kaohsiung, playing a similar role to the River Thames of London.

Marvel Masterworks

Following this, from 1997 to 2002, the Masterworks line was revived, when some of the original 27 went back into print with a new style of dust-jacket designed by Comicraft, and without the chronological numbering on the spine.

Miriam Wolfe

Cole, puzzled at first when he saw a young girl in a straw hat and Buster Brown haircut, hired her as soon as he heard the spine-chilling, cackling laugh which became her trademark.

Musical Prostheses

A group of researchers from McGill University Canada designed several digital musical instruments in the form of moving parts of the body like the Rib and spine.

N. elegans

Naso elegans, the elegant unicornfish, Indian orange-spine unicorn, orange-spine unicorn or smoothheaded unicornfish, a tropical fish found in coral reefs in the Indian Ocean

Nevada, Iowa

The C&NW purchased the Rock Island "Spine Line" which offered better and more direct connections for Minneapolis and Kansas City.

Pelecanus schreiberi

An incomplete quadrate bone and axis vertebra without a spine from a mine of the same age in Polk County in central Florida are tentatively considered to be the same species.

Railway spine

Germany's leading neurologist, Hermann Oppenheim, claimed that all railway spine symptoms were due to physical damage to the spine or brain, whereas French and British scholars, notably Jean-Martin Charcot and Herbert Page, insisted that some symptoms could be caused by hysteria (now known as conversion disorder).

Raymond A. Palmer

An unsuccessful operation on Palmer's spine stunted his growth (he stood about four feet tall), and left him with a hunchback.

Sasangasana

Rabbit pose lengthens the spine and stretches the back, arms, and shoulders while stimulating the immune and endocrine systems.

Spine Chillers

Spine Chillers was a 1980 British children's supernatural television series broadcast on BBC1.

Spine Chillers is also the name of a British series aimed at older viewers, a horror/comedy anthology first shown on BBC Three.

The Medical Center of Aurora

Specialties for which The Medical Center of Aurora is best known locally and nationally include heart and vascular care, surgical services, women’s services, cancer services, and neurosciences, including spine, brain and stroke care.

Tipperary Hill

The James Kernan Theater was located on the east side of the block in 1924, and "once showed the spine-tingling adventures of Harry Carey and Tom Mix" while Kernan's wife, Ann, played the piano accompaniment.

TV Shit

The album cover's spine and back cover (with the exception of the photo) is from the Karlheinz Stockhausen album Gesang der Jünglinge, which is often credited as being the first electronic album.

Verecke Pass

The pass is located in the Carpathian Mountains just where the oblasts of Lviv and Transcarpathia meet, on the spine of the Northeastern Carpathians, between the Latorica or Latorytsia and Opor river valleys and at the river divide or watershed between the Latorytsia and the Stryi.

Vertebral osteomyelitis

Spinal fusion is a common approach to destroying the microorganism causing the disease and rebuilding parts of the spine that were lost due to the infection.

White and Black Blues

Ursull sings that "When someone talks to me about skin colour/I have the blues which sends shivers down my spine/I feel as if I'm in a tale by Edgar Allan Poe".


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