The findings, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that the general structure of our spinal column was already emerging 3.3 million years ago.

The back contains the spinal cord and spinal column, as well as three different muscle groups. Many conditions and injuries can affect the back. Learn more here.

The section of spinal neurosurgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is a well-established and expanding service of the Department of Neurosurgery under Chair, James M. Markert, M.D. Led by ...

MORPHOLOGICAL, measurements1 have shown that the spinal column of the shrew (Sorex) contracts during the winter and lengthens again in the spring. This lengthening is noticeably greater than the ...

W. S. Oke, Sketch of the Relative Anatomy of the Spinal Column (Continued), Provincial Medical Journal and Retrospect of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 177 (Feb. 17, 1844), pp. 383-386 ...

New research from the University of Cincinnati has examined one such process which leads to the formation of vertebral column or spinal column. If this process is disrupted, it results in a birth ...