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Her spinal cord was partly severed, so that she is now paralyzed below the waist.spinal cord = nerve cells running from the base of the skull to the lower back and enclosed by vertebrae in adults
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The line showed clearly on the top of his brown head and back where the brain joined the spinal cord and the old man drove the knife on the oar into the juncture, (source)spinal cord = nerve cells running from the base of the brain to the lower back in vertebrates
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The cause of death was extensive injuries to the brain and spinal cord due to a fall through an open grate of the fire tower, sixty-three feet to the ground.† (source)spinal cord = nerve cells running from the base of the skull to the lower back and enclosed by vertebrae in adults
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She ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails gliding across the spinal cord of each book.† (source)
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They haven't worked out how to fix a spinal cord yet.† (source)
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There was a noise of organic crunching as windpipe and spinal cord were crushed.† (source)
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Paralysis only happens if the spinal cord — a long nerve running down the middle of the neck — breaks.† (source)spinal cord = nerve cells running from the base of the skull to the lower back and enclosed by vertebrae in adults
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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)
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Once the spinal cord is severed, there is no hope.† (source)
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The Man I Killed His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole, his eyebrows were thin and arched like a woman's, his nose was undamaged, there was a slight tear at the lobe of one ear, his clean black hair was swept upward into a cowlick at the rear of the skull, his forehead was lightly freckled, his fingernails were clean, the skin at his left cheek was peeled back in three ragged strips, his right cheek was smooth and hairless, there was a butterfly on his chin, his neck was open to the spinal cord and the blood there was thick and shiny and it was this wound that had killed him.† (source)
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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)
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The bullet had shattered her spinal cord.† (source)
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Here's another," before firing a fifth bullet into Cabey's spinal cord and paralysing him for life.† (source)
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You're sure it wasn't stuck to the spinal cord, anything like that?† (source)
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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)
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The medical team's main concerns—damage to my spinal cord, airway, veins, and arteries—have been allayed.† (source)
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