I received a severe spine injury.

A functional spinal unit (FSU) (or motion segment) is the smallest physiological motion unit of the spine to exhibit biomechanical characteristics similar to those of the entire spine.

Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.

The temples formed the backbone of the economy.

A glioma is a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine.

Education, which used to be the backbone of Palestinian survival, has been deliberately targeted.

They are typically found as triglycerides (three fatty acids attached to one glycerol backbone).

The most important lesson is that Islamic organizations can provide the backbone of a tolerant civil society.

On top of this, the THUS backbone network uses MPLS technology to deliver the highest possible performance.

By convention, area 0 (zero), or 0.0.0.0, represents the core or backbone area of an OSPF network.

Area 0.0.0.2 can use a virtual link through the transit area 0.0.0.1 to reach the backbone.

He described this injury after observing spinal cord trauma which happened to farmers while cutting sugar cane in Mauritius.

ORT4 the tumor is affecting different areas outside of the hypopharynx, starting with the throat and moving towards the spine and chest cavity.

It is large and heavy bodied with a dorsal crest of short spines running from the base of the neck to the end of the tail.

Decent would be Palestinian businessmen (the potential backbone of a middle class) are destroyed. Racketeers flourish.

Further assume that area 0.0.0.2 has no direct connection to the backbone, but this area does have a connection to area 0.0.0.1.

Planes like the Mirage III and Mirage F1 were bought from France and became the backbone of the Air Force during the 1970s and part of the 1980s.

Now, at this phase, the program actually has some understanding of the topology of this creature. It kind of knows where the backbone is, where the spine, the limbs are.

Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, spinal cord injury, muscular dystrophy, retinal eye diseases are any of these conditions relevant, personally, to you?

There is an acknowledged need to promote close links between the NAPs and the strategies for combating poverty, which currently determine the structure of development efforts.

Ms. García Matos (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) said that full guarantees of human rights were the backbone of State policy and had been enshrined in the Venezuelan constitution.

As a fish nerd, I have to laugh, because you know they don't call us fish nerds for nothing we actually do get excited about finding a new dorsal spine in a guppy.

Many spend their days lying in bed, where they develop major health problems including bedsores, muscle atrophy, spinal deformities, and breathing disorders.

The Spanish Republican Air Force became practically irrelevant since the Battle of the Ebro in 1938 when the root of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces was broken.

The GEO collaborating centre network, which has been the backbone of the assessment since its inception in 1995, continues to be a critical part of the process, providing inputs for both regional and global sections.

Indeed, the power struggle that will ensue in the post Arafat era will ultimately center on Al Fatah, the backbone of the PLO.

Although the resulting outflow of gold caused monetary debasement in the Roman Empire, Indo Roman trade remained the backbone of the global economy.

Testing of myotomes, in the form of isometric resisted muscle testing, provides the clinician with information about the level in the spine where a lesion may be present.

As we speak, the world's first human embryonic stem cell trial for spinal cord injury is currently underway following the USFDA approval.

Structures literally in the centre of the organism such as the vertebral column are often more burdened than those at the periphery, such as hair or toes.

Synaptic symptoms include early childhood feeding and respiratory problems, reduced mobility, curvature of the spine, and weakness, which causes a delay in motor milestones.

Iris Leung of MSF Hong Kong writes about her experience while visiting the Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre in Sanga, about one hour s drive from Kathmandu

I wasn't thinking about a dodo skeleton I just noticed that as I finished this skull, the armature wire that I had been used to holding it up was sticking out of the back just where a spine would be.

Usually the hip (head of the femur), lower back (lumbar spine) or heel (calcaneum) are imaged, and the bone density (amount of calcium) is determined and given a number (a T score).

Furthermore, lower levels of mycotoxins in pest resistant corn mean fewer birth defects, such as spina bifida, and less toxicity to livestock.

From a side view, the cervical (neck) region of the spine (C1 C7) is bent inward, the thoracic (upper back) region (T1 T12) bends outward, and the lumbar (lower back) region (L1 L5) bends inward.

This consisted of bringing a negative electrode close to the patient, usually near the spine, causing sparks to be produced between the electrode and the patient.

Manipulation of CpG S and CpG N sequences in the plasmid backbone of DNA vaccines can ensure the success of the immune response to the encoded antigen, and drive the immune response toward a TH1 phenotype.

And the US dollar reserve currency system the backbone of the current global financial system is fraying.

Wherever this particular sequence of six base pairs occurs unmodified in a DNA molecule, HindII will cleave both sugar phosphate backbones of the DNA between the 3rd and 4th base pairs of the sequence.

The outcome is that now we can qualify the statement that women are the backbone of the nation when we see that 77 per cent of all economically active women in the country are engaged in subsistence agriculture.

The landscape consists of a raised central section, the backbone of the Central African Republic, and two depressions, the Chad basin in the north and the Congo basin in the south these two basins form the basis of the country's drainage system.

Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.

Some donor money is still believed to get through, but the non profit organizations that provided the backbone of Al Qaida financial support have been added to the List, and many have closed down.

The science case that probably played the most significant role in the campaign was a suit filed by the British Chiropractic Association against science writer Simon Singh for an article he published in The Guardian in 2008, in which he discussed bogus treatments.