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 brain and spinal cord are made mainly of neural tissue ( consisting of neurones or nerve cells ) and glial tissue ( consisting of supportive and packing cells eg oligodendrocytes [ oligo = just a few ; dendrite = protruding process ; cyto = cell ] therefore a cell with a few dendrites ) , or ependymal cells which produce the CSF ( cerebrospinal ...