spinal column
Example Sentences
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After the first neck injury in 2019, Vander Esch was diagnosed with a narrow spinal column and underwent fusion surgery.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
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
Many US citizens travel to Mexico for cosmetic procedures such as liposuction, breast augmentation and Brazilian butt lifts, which all require the injection of an anaesthetic into the area around the spinal column.
From BBC ● May 27, 2023
All are female Texas residents in their 30s to their 50s, and all had undergone surgeries in Matamoros that involved an epidural: an anesthetic injection around the spinal column.
From Scientific American ● May 22, 2023
“The reflex-arc response taking place in the upper ganglia of the spinal column requires several microseconds more in the humanoid robot than in a human nervous system.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
