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  • Eventually we got all the way to the base of the skull where the spinal cord and the brain stem meet, and we were still having the same problem.†   (source)
  • Here's another," before firing a fifth bullet into Cabey's spinal cord and paralysing him for life.†   (source)
  • It was an awful-looking hit, and the chief of neurosurgery at Kentucky later told my dad that he was sure my spinal cord had been damaged.†   (source)
  • Imagine someone reaching straight into your chest, past the bones and blood and guts, and taking a nice firm hold on your spinal cord.†   (source)
  • He donates the speaking fees to groups that conduct spinal cord research.†   (source)
  • They removed the brain, eyes, and spinal cord and dropped them into a jar of preservative.†   (source)
  • The signals coming up from Thomas's toe and ankle and knee told him where he was in space, but in Justifus Stone those messages had been blocked in his spinal cord.†   (source)
  • The bullet had shattered her spinal cord.†   (source)
  • Five people had emerged from the darkness of the Berg, dressed in outfits that sent a chill racing down Mark's spinal cord.†   (source)
  • The farmer pointed to the area at the back of the neck where the brain is connected to the spinal cord.†   (source)
  • They had been behind German lines before many times —living like woods creatures, living from moment to moment in useful terror, thinking brainlessly with their spinal cords.†   (source)
  • The first bullet drilled into his jawbone, the second sliced through his neck and his spinal cord.†   (source)
  • They're bouncing back and forth, banging against my eyeballs and eardrums and the top of my spinal cord.†   (source)
  • It preserves the organs, but there won't be any brain function once that spinal cord is severed and hypoxia sets in, no matter how much oxygen you pump into his system.†   (source)
  • Using as few medical terms as possible, Dr. Swaney explained to the jury the type of cancer that was killing Seth Hubbard, with emphasis on the tumors that metastasized to his spinal cord and ribs.†   (source)
  • I saw a metallic spinal cord, connected to two metal legs, walking around.†   (source)
  • The blade flashed in rotation, once, twice, then buried itself in the base of the man's neck, severing his spinal cord before the man had time to react.†   (source)
  • Grunting with effort, Hussain sawed through the spinal cord, and Twaha held the head aloft by its horns.†   (source)
  • Yet it was still the remnant of Halley's melody that gave it form; it was the melody that supported it like a spinal cord.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Boston Corbett has fired a bullet and it slices through Booth's spinal cord and paralyzes him from the neck down.†   (source)
  • There was a tumor attached to his spinal cord, and soon it would send cancer up and down the nerve corridor, to his brain, to his feet, everywhere.†   (source)
  • Connecting us together, Jeremy's body and me, was a spinal cord, blood vessels, nerve endings, and this swollen scar right in the middle of my neck about halfway between my clavicle and my chin.†   (source)
  • Decompression time does depend upon the total amount of time spent underwater during about a twelve-hour period, since you are dealing with the total amount of nitrogen absorbed by the tissues, particularly the brain and spinal cord.†   (source)
  • I worked out that SCI was a spinal cord injury, AB the able-bodied, a UTI an infection.†   (source)
  • You're sure it wasn't stuck to the spinal cord, anything like that?†   (source)
  • It's a spinal cord injury.†   (source)
  • The long line of boxcars stretched off into the distance, in spaced, rectangular links, like a spinal cord.†   (source)
  • The force of the drop, combined with the position of the knot, is what's meant to fracture the cervical vertebrae and separate the spinal cord.†   (source)
  • The cheapest ground beef was not only the most likely to be contaminated with pathogens, but also the most likely to contain pieces of spinal cord, bone, and gristle left behind by Automated Meat Recovery Systems (contraptions that squeeze the last shreds of meat off bones).†   (source)
  • The meandering conversation, the boastful tales at the dinner table, the delusions of grandeur—that was syphilis of the brain, not just the spinal cord.†   (source)
  • There isn't much light and Razor can't hold him perfectly still, so I tell Bob to chill or I might sever his spinal cord, adding paralysis to the problem of a broken finger.†   (source)
  • At the top of the spinal cord was a Plexiglas box holding-no, not a hamster-a brainlike clump of tissue.†   (source)
  • The body was still accelerating due to gravity at the end of the drop, but the head was restricted by the noose—which broke the neck and ruptured the spinal cord, rendering instant unconsciousness, and a quick death.†   (source)
  • His father's stamping, crashing gait, always worse at night when he no longer could see where his feet were planted—that was from syphilis of the spinal cord, or tabes dorsalis.†   (source)
  • The growth was too close to his spinal cord, and had altered the passage of signals from his brain to the rest of him.†   (source)
  • I kneel beside his unconscious body, slip the knife from its sheath, and carefully cut out the pellet embedded near the spinal cord at the base of his skull.†   (source)
  • She went on, running down the spinal cord of a dead train, noting the peculiar combination of lighted compartments, open doors and empty passages: no one had ventured to step out.†   (source)
  • Therefore we cannot know at this moment the condition of the spinal cord itself.†   (source)
  • Just wait, someday soon he'll identify that substance present throughout the body, and he'll manufacture those by-products himself, the ones with the intoxicating effect on the spinal cord.†   (source)
  • But what should one say to Frau Stohr's assertion that Frau Redisch from Posen, who was said to have tuberculosis of the spinal cord, was forced once a week to march naked back and forth in front of Director Behrens in his office for ten minutes?†   (source)
  • It was all about a kind of poisoning, about the organism poisoning itself, which, Dr. Krokowski had said, was the result of the decomposition of a certain, still-unidentified substance present throughout the body; the by-products of that decomposition had an intoxicating effect on certain centers in the spinal cord, not all that different from what happens when other poisons, such as morphine or cocaine, are introduced into the body.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The distinguished scientist Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus, thereby causing the elastic pores of the corpora cavernosa to rapidly dilate in such a way as to instantaneously facilitate the flow of blood t†   (source)
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