All 3 Uses of
spinal cord
in
Moby Dick
- Now, of course, this canal is filled with much the same strangely fibrous substance—the spinal cord—as the brain; and directly communicates with the brain.†
Chpt 79-81 *
- And what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal to that of the brain.†
Chpt 79-81
- For, viewed in this light, the wonderful comparative smallness of his brain proper is more than compensated by the wonderful comparative magnitude of his spinal cord.†
Chpt 79-81
Definition:
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(spinal cord) nerve cells running from the base of the skull to the lower back and enclosed by vertebrae in adults