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the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
the fall broke his back
How To Use spinal column In A Sentence
- Their highest instinct of sportsmanship is to catch a man with his back turned and to smite him a cunning blow with a tomahawk that severs the spinal column at the base of the brain. THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
- GUPTA: Doctors say Britt suffered from a vertebral basilar stroke, caused by excessive neck manipulation to the spinal column. CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2008
- In the spinal column motoneuron denaturates in the mouse model, this can improve its mobility.
- Another of the positions is keeping the back straight and erect, with the vertebrae of the spinal column in a straight line.
- A side view of a normal spinal column demonstrates reciprocal curves, beginning with cervical lordosis and then lumbar lordosis.
- Chiropractic Practitioners deal with the structural relationships between the nerve tissues and the spinal column.
- A streak of yellow ochre holds a form together, but on perusal, it becomes a muscle, the features of a face or a spinal column.
- The spinal cord, a pathway for messages between the brain and the body, is protected by the backbone, or spinal column.
- The spinal column is composed of seven cervical vertebrae, twelve thoracic vertebrae, five lumbar vertebrae, the bony sacrum, and the coccyx.
- The central rod is known as the Sushumna and corresponds to the spinal column.