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Recent Examples of spinal cord
His right arm, six of his ribs, and his lung had suffered, with a crack on his C2 vertebrae and a spinal cord bruise.
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Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
In the last year alone, Davis notes scientists have published important work in a variety of areas — on blood clotting, the impacts of exercise, evidence of viral persistence in the spinal cord, and loss of blood flow to the brain, to name just a few.
—Will Stone, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025
Her doctors noted in their report that the worms typically stay in the pia mater of the brain, a delicate innermost layer of tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
—Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2025
About two-thirds of people with spinal cord injuries in the U.S. have incomplete injuries, meaning that though their movement may be extremely limited, their spinal cords have not completely lost the ability to transmit messages to and from the brain.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
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Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
In the last year alone, Davis notes scientists have published important work in a variety of areas — on blood clotting, the impacts of exercise, evidence of viral persistence in the spinal cord, and loss of blood flow to the brain, to name just a few.
—Will Stone, NPR, 12 Mar. 2025
Her doctors noted in their report that the worms typically stay in the pia mater of the brain, a delicate innermost layer of tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.
—Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2025
About two-thirds of people with spinal cord injuries in the U.S. have incomplete injuries, meaning that though their movement may be extremely limited, their spinal cords have not completely lost the ability to transmit messages to and from the brain.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spinal cord
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The largest vertebra in that specimen measured 15.5 centimeters (6 inches) in diameter, although there are other megalodon vertebrae in Denmark, for example, with diameters as much as 23 centimeters (9 inches).—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
9 Mar. 2025
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The flying reptile, represented by a vertebra from the neck, was found in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, in July 2023.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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The Athletic reported in July that there was a feeling among coaching staff that there could be less reliability at the back this campaign, with the expectation of conceding 10 to 15 more goals but the hope, with Mbappe, of increasing the goalscoring significantly.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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The etchings reflect the 13-month lunar calendars the tribes used, with a different design on each of the 13 scales on a snapping turtle’s back.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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The team concluded that based on the spinal column, the combination of a great white build with the megalodon's much longer length would have simply proved too cumbersome.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
9 Mar. 2025
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Symptoms usually begin as headache, nausea, vomiting and fever, but then can spread to neurological symptoms after the parasite leaves the bloodstream, enters muscle, migrates to peripheral nerves and into the spinal column and brain, doctors said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
21 Feb. 2025
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The vertebral column comprises individual vertebral bones with spinal discs between each bone.—
Jennifer Steinhoff,
Verywell Health,
13 Mar. 2025
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Shimada’s team used incomplete fossils of the megalodon’s vertebral column and compared them to the bodies of 165 other living and extinct shark species to extrapolate the animal’s size.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Spinal cord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spinal%20cord. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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