spinal column
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She also developed syringomyelia, which affects roughly eight in 100,000 people, in which cysts form on the spinal column.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
He severed a nerve between my uterus and spinal column that reduced my pain and dramatically improved my quality of life.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2023
These events conspicuously occur before the evolution of major novelties like the spinal column in vertebrates, flowers in plants, and fermentation in yeast.
From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023
This helps exercisers avoid neck and back pain caused when a heavy load compresses the spinal column.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
Here we're somewhere in the middle of the head with the cortex above, the corpus callosum in the middle, and the brain stem descending to the spinal column.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
