What's the difference between vertebrae and vertebral?

Vertebrae


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Vertebra

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
  • (2) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
  • (3) The various changes were accompanied by a marked reduction in the overall wet weight of the vertebrae.
  • (4) The BMD of the 2nd to 4th lumbar vertebrae was measured and the mean density presented as g cm-2.
  • (5) All the vertebrae were agenetic below the thoracic segments in the other rat fetus.
  • (6) Neusticosaurus species are easiest separated by their number of presacral vertebrae.
  • (7) This was followed by a gradual density increase such that by 1 year postoperatively, in 60% of the subjects, the density of these vertebrae was higher than the preoperative level.
  • (8) The characteristic injuries were compression wedge-shaped fractures, multiple fractures of the vertebrae, comminuted and traumatic spondylolistheses and dislocation fractures.
  • (9) They make it possible to dissect, by spending minimal time and making less efforts, the vertebral canal both within several vertebrae and its nearly full length, providing a wide view of the spinal cord, rootlets, and intervertebral ganglia.
  • (10) The Authors describe the moniliform structure of dorsal aorta of the Cyprinus carpio L., which has successive swellings and constrictions, strictly corresponding to each vertebra.
  • (11) He also had multiple follicular and papillary thyroid carcinomas with a metastatic lesion in the lumbar vertebrae.
  • (12) In older children, there were a low vertebral signal and disappearance of the disc-vertebra borders on T1-weighted images and a high vertebral signal with a decreased and flattened disc signal on T2-weighted images.
  • (13) Hyperthermia was applied in the region of the vertebral column between the cervical vertebrae 5 and thoracic 2, using a ring-shaped applicator operating at a microwave frequency of 434 MHz.
  • (14) The authors report on their experience with 23 patients with destructive disease of the vertebrae.
  • (15) In 20 patients, vertebral deformities were limited to 1 or 2 mid-thoracic vertebrae, and the mean CaBI values for these 20 patients was 0.81 (0.15), equal to that for patients without any vertebral deformity.
  • (16) Both conditions are inherited and characterised by malformed thoracic and lumbar vertebrae.
  • (17) The injured vertebra is grafted through the pedicle, giving security against late collapse after device removal.
  • (18) The authors describe two types of pelvic obliquity--total pelvic obliquity in which the sacrum is the lowest vertebra of the lumbar curve and subtotal pelvic obliquity in which there is some compensation between L5 and the sacrum.
  • (19) Although anterior and posterior traumatic displacement of cervical vertebrae are commonly noted, and the devastating neurological deficits associated with these injuries have been amply defined, lateral displacement with fractures has been rarely recognized, and the clinical significance of this injury has been overlooked.
  • (20) The T-1 nerve root obstructs posterolateral access to the T-1 vertebra, necessitating an inferolateral approach underneath the T-1 nerve root axilla.

Vertebral


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a vertebrae, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian.
  • (a.) Vertebrate.
  • (n.) A vertebrate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
  • (2) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (3) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
  • (4) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (5) With the successful culture of these tissues, their development, biochemistry, and physiology, potentially of great importance in understanding early vertebrate evolution, can be better understood.
  • (6) In this paper, we examine corticosteroid 11 beta-oxidation and 11-reduction as properties of the microsomal 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase complex in vertebrate livers.
  • (7) The bony elements of both adjacent vertebral bodies are secondarily involved.
  • (8) Depending on local anatomical properties duplex scanning failed to make a decision about the state of the ostium of the vertebral artery in 24% of the cases.
  • (9) Neural crest cells give rise to various essential tissues in vertebrates.
  • (10) Per-rotational nystagmus was recorded in rabbits with unilaterally narrowed vertebral arteries or following unilateral cervical sympathectomies.
  • (11) We advance a structural model to account for the rapid elastic element seen in mechanical transient experiments on vertebrate skeletal muscle (A.F.
  • (12) Investigations have been made to determine the identity and binding characteristics of the pterins that are bound tightly to dihydrofolate reductases which are isolated from vertebrate sources by a well established procedure.
  • (13) We concluded that the primitive eukaryote D.discoideum contains proteins which show functional and physical similarity with the alpha-subunits of vertebrate G-proteins.
  • (14) For dinucleotides, TA is almost universally under-represented, with the exception of vertebrate mitochondrial genomes, and CG is strongly under-represented in vertebrates and in mitochondrial genomes.
  • (15) Genetic studies in yeast demonstrate that vertebrate calmodulin can functionally replace yeast calmodulin.
  • (16) The 76-residue protein exhibits one difference towards a murine form, is identical to other characterized vertebrate ubiquitins, and confirms an extensive conservation of the ubiquitin structure.
  • (17) This was true even when the locations of low resistance areas along the dorsal trunk were compared to only those vertebral palpatory findings rated as "severe."
  • (18) CT possesses some advantages over roentgenography in the diagnosis of degenerative vertebral diseases and can be recommended as the principal method together with roentgenography for investigation of patients with lumbar pains.
  • (19) Precedent exists for the early development and subsequent down-regulation of neurotransmitter receptor systems in the vertebrate central nervous system, but the function of such embryonic receptors has not been established.
  • (20) The authors report a case of primary aspergillus endocarditis with endophthalmitis and vertebral osteomyelitis.

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