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.
Structure of the spinal cord. The spinal cord has a core of grey matter containing nerve cell bodies, dendrites, and supporting cells. Surrounding the grey matter is white matter containing columns of nerve fibres that carry signals to and from the brain along the length of the spinal cord.