I'd broken my neck and my back in six places.

She had a spina bifida defect, a spinal cord abnormality.

And so button by button, vertebrae by vertebrae, I built my way down.

They said to my parents, the neck break was a stable fracture, but the back was completely crushed.

Now that, if your spine is not held in a good position, will help bend your spine the wrong way, and so on.

In the spinal ward, that's normal.

And same thing for invertebrates. This is the example.

And in proportion, what would the size of the sphere and the length, and what would the taper be to the Earth?

And this is the weight of all air and land vertebrates.

Now little fishes and invertebrates aren't the only things we see down there.

Here you can see a bullet that has lodged just next to the spine on this person.

Would everybody put their hand under their bottom and feel their tailbone?

Well the body works by starting a motor command in your brain, going down your spinal cord, out the nerves and to your periphery.

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Livers and internal organs sort of take a bit longer. A spine takes several years.

They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal.

The vertebra at L1 was like you'd dropped a peanut, stepped on it, smashed it into thousands of pieces.

Well, there wasn't much else to do in the spinal ward, so we did.

Scientists say the Greenland shark has the longest lifespan of any vertebrate on the planet.

I was airlifted from the scene of the accident by a rescue helicopter to a large spinal unit in Sydney.

This is the last act on this Earth of a little girl called Heidi, five years old, before she died of cancer to the spine.

I actually understood the mechanics of vertebrae enough to kind of start to imitate them.

And then I remembered my friends that were still in the spinal ward, particularly Maria.

In the police van, he was repeatedly kicked on the back, causing damage to his spinal cord.

Galvani showed that a frog's legs twitched when he connected the lumbar nerve to a source of electrical current.

KA Sort of like the Spinal Tap scene where you get the tiny little Stonehenge, I guess?

They're in The Guinness World Book of Records again for being the vertebrate growth champion of the world.

And I was a long, long way from that spinal ward, and I knew right then that I was going to be a pilot.

People with spinal cord injuries, like paraplegias, quadriplegias, will often develop a very, very sensitive area right above the level of their injury, wherever that is.

Humans, livestock and pets are, now, 98 percent of the total world's mass of vertebrates on land and air.

And actually, by the end of the day, I had a reasonable skull, a moderately good vertebrae and half of a pelvis.

Iraq also agrees that the coastal oil trench and oil deposit areas in Kuwait Bay are possible sources of oil impacting these locations.

They start as little eggs, and they're in The Guinness World Book of Records again for having the most number of eggs of any vertebrate on the planet.

The first documented, successful vertebrate reproduction in space involved mating and hatching Medaka fish eggs.

Anyway, as you'll see in a moment, Susana was able to turn on the flight motor of what's the equivalent of the spinal cord of these flies and get some of the headless bodies to actually take off and fly away.

We began to find limb bones we found finger bones, the bones of the pelvis, vertebrae, ribs, the collar bones, things that had never, ever been seen before in Homo erectus.

As we move past the relatively gigantic mammals, birds, frogs and plants to the more elusive insects and other small invertebrates and then beyond to the countless millions of organisms in the invisible living world enveloped and living within humanity?

And even lying paralyzed in the spinal ward, there were moments of incredible depth and richness, of authenticity and connection that I had never experienced before.

They took out two of my broken ribs, and they rebuilt my back, L1, they rebuilt it, they took out another broken rib, they fused T12, L1 and L2 together.

So here's two sort of canonical neurons from a vertebrate and an invertebrate, a human pyramidal neuron from Ramon y Cajal, and another cell to the right, a non spiking interneuron, and this is the work of Alan Watson and Malcolm Burrows many years ago, and Malcolm Burrows came up with a pretty interesting idea based on the fact that this neuron from a locust does not fire action potentials.

And the aquarium had a lot of big fish tanks but not a lot of invertebrate displays, and being the spineless guy, I thought, well I'll just go out in the field and collect these wonderful animals I had been learning about as a student and bring them in, and I built these elaborate sets and put them on display.

He had seen a variety of internal and external medical specialists, and had had an MRI spinal examination, physiotherapy for his back and an X ray thyroid gland examination.

10,000 years ago at the dawn of agriculture, human population, plus livestock and pets, was approximately a tenth of one per cent of the terrestrial vertebrae landmass.

25 Days Heart chamber developing 32 Days Arms hands are developing 36 Days Beginning of the primitive vertabrae These weeks are the period of the most rapid development of the fetus.

Sampling cerebrospinal fluid via a lumbar puncture (or spinal tap ) can predict which people with mild cognitive impairment will progress to dementia with over 80 accuracy, but this still means a misdiagnosis for one in five patients. PET scans are slightly less accurate, while routine MRI brain scans can reveal with perhaps only 70 accuracy subtle abnormalities in people with mild cognitive impairment.