Chisels

joimax(R) Revolutionizes Spine Surgery With the Launch of Newest and Fully-Endoscopic Product Innovations to Treat Spinal Canal Stenosis

...via a fingernail-like cut the minimal access to the stenosis is enabled. Surrounding tissue is hardly damaged and thanks to new endoscopic reamers and chisels allowing removal of osteophytes, treated patients can leave the hospital only a few hours after the surgery", explains Dr. Rudolf Morgenstern. A fur...

A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...fore, there was a lot of faith and not a lot of science. It was like you were leading a detective-like investigation into the Alzheimer’s killer using chisels and hammers to chip away at deeply buried clues,” Dr. Golde says. “Now we have the scientific tools and fancy machines that allow us to be so much...

Chisels in Medical Products

Tangent Posterior Impacted Instrument Set

Description:...9 different distractor heights to ensure proper vertebral body distraction. A variety of sizes of round scrapers, rotate cutters and free hand cutting chisels precisely prepare the disc space and endplates....
Company:Medtronic Neurological and Spinal

Spinal Instruments

Description:... A general instrument set consisting of 38 cobbs, osteotomes, elevators, and chisels with utility in the spine. The instruments extra (15) length provides a positive grip. These instruments, best applied in thoracic, lumbar and sacral ...
Company:Depuy Spine

TANGENT Posterior Impacted Instrument Set

Features:...9 different distractor heights to ensure proper vertebral body distraction. A variety of sizes of round scrapers, rotate cutters and free hand cutting chisels precisely prepare the disc space and endplates....
Company:Medtronic Neurological and Spinal

Chisels in Biological News

Researchers uncover world's oldest fossil impression of a flying insect

... the Geology Department, set out to hunt for fossils at a location they learned of while reading a master's thesis that had been written in 1929. With chisels and hammers, the team reached the shale and sandstone outcropping described in the paper. There they delicately picked away pieces of rock before reac...

Massive dinosaur discovered in Antarctica sheds light on life, distribution of sauropodomorphs

...n Antarctica at an elevation of more than 13,000 feet. The fossils were painstakingly removed from the ice and rock using jackhammers, rock saws and chisels under extremely difficult conditions over the course of two field seasons, said Nathan Smith, a graduate student at The Field Museum. They are importa...

Chisels in Biological Technology

Melting defects could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips

...akers will run up against fundamental physical limits of current manufacturing techniques. In particular, the electrons and photons that are used like chisels to carve out the microscopic features on a chip always have some random behavior. This effect becomes pronounced at very small scales and limits the a...