spinal cord

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Recent Examples of spinal cord It’s been suggested that epidurals can cause permanent back pain or spinal cord damage. Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2025 When the spinal cord is bruised the dog may be able to heal if the fracture is rapidly repaired. Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025 Moreover, epidural needles do not penetrate the dura mater and so do not come in contact with the spinal cord. Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2025 In the spinal cord, the migration can also cause bowel or bladder dysfunction. Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spinal cord
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • As Araujo has his back turned to Alvarez, Nandez is forced to close down the Atletico Madrid forward, which creates space for Almada to run into.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • When his victory was confirmed, Hendrickson fell to his back in disbelief as he was mobbed by his coaching staff while Steveson rested on his knees in amazement.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Since moving around on land did not require a stiff spinal column, early terrestrial vertebrates evolved flexibility just behind the head, enabling them to widely scan the environment and to direct their mouths toward prey without moving their whole bodies.
    Kent Dunlap, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Their work, published in Science Robotics, introduces a novel control approach that combines the natural coordination patterns of our fingers with the decoding of motoneuron activity in the spinal column.
    Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The vertebral column comprises individual vertebral bones with spinal discs between each bone.
    Jennifer Steinhoff, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025
  • 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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