A skeletal survey is a series of X-rays which includes the entire skeleton. Skeletal surveys may be ordered for a variety of reasons in children and in adults. In general, they are used to identify ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

The hyoid bone is rarely discussed, but it a unique part of the human skeleton due to its horseshoe shape and because it is mobile. This means that other than its attachment site to the thyroid ...

Diagnosis of prenatal-onset skeletal dysplasias can be accomplished by ultrasound evaluation and confirmed by both molecular testing using invasive procedures and postdelivery radiographs and ...

Skeletal muscle is a subtype of muscle formed of bundles of elongated, cylindrical, multinucleate muscle fibres arranged in a striated pattern. Skeletal muscle is attached to the skeleton by ...

The hyoid bone is therefore instrumental in producing sound (a key function of the larynx) and performing many vital tasks such as coughing, moving the tongue, breathing, maintaining head posture, and ...

Skeletal remains of a toddler discovered wrapped in newspaper and stuffed inside a steel can in Hawaii finally reached a breakthrough more than 60 years after the grim death.

Cutting-edge technology in a lab at Florida Atlantic University was used to digitize the skeleton of the rarest marine mammal in the world, a porpoise called the vaquita, ensuring that the animal ...

To understand NASR and its causes, an understanding of bone anatomy and physiology is necessary. Most people think of the skeleton as an inert frame that muscle, tendon and ligaments attach to ...

Fractures, by far the most important abnormality of the skeletal system, occur with increasing frequency in the elderly because of decreasing strength of the skeleton. This weakness is due largely ...