DAVID M. NUNAMAKER. The term osteomyelitis by definition implies inflammation of the bone and its marrow contents regardless of the cause. The purpose of this chapter is to describe osteomyelitis caused by known infectious agents. The two major classifications are bacterial osteomyelitis and fungal osteomyelitis. The study of bacterial osteomyelitis includes two distinct clinical forms of the disease.
Then you are a vertebrate, too! Vertebrates make up most of the animals that we are familiar with. Exceptions to this would be things like an insect, an octopus, a lobster or crab, a jellyfish, or a clam. Most everything else is a vertebrate, with a backbone and other bones. The five classes of vertebrates are listed below.
Vertebrates Defintion. Vertebrate are the animals belonging to the sub-phylum Vertebrata. They belong to the Phylum Chordata. The characteristics of phylum chordata is the presence of notochord, a dorsal hollow nerve cord and paired pharyngeal gill slits.