During turtle ontogeny the reduction of the trunk myomeres leads to sinking of the vertebrae and ribs into the dermis. |
It's not a form of manipulation, she says, but a way of allowing the vertebrae to relax into a natural, unstressed position. |
The caudal vertebrae have been fused into a single rod-shaped skeletal element that lies between the ilia, in effect moving the tail internally. |
He survived with three cracked vertebrae and a dislocated finger after the roof of a shack broke his fall. |
The entire neural spine and arch of the first two vertebrae of this series are exposed. |
Your spinal cord runs down through your vertebrae, and nerves pass through gaps in the spinal column. |