â Christian name â forename â given name. 1. 'first name'. Your first name is the name that was given to you when you were born. Your first name comes in front of your surname. At some point in the conversation Brian began calling Philip by his first name. In British English, people sometimes use Christian name instead of first name.
The intervertebral fusion cage is a large, hollow cylinder made of some type of metal, usually titanium. It is designed as a cage so that bone graft can be placed inside the hollow cylinder to allow a spinal fusion to occur between two vertebrae.
The bones that create the architecture of the thoracic cage include the sternum, the ribs, and the thoracic vertebrae. 1  The sternum: The sternum is a flat, long bone that forms the medial and anterior part of the thoracic cage. It has three parts: Manubrium: The manubrium forms the upper part of the sternum.