How to Use cervical in a Sentence

cervical

adjective
  • Not sure how often you should be getting screened for cervical cancer?
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 30 July 2020
  • Last year, his season ended on Aug. 22 with a cervical strain.
    John Fay, The Enquirer, 10 July 2020
  • Rates of cervical cancer there are seven times higher than in countries with greater resources.
    Emma McKim Mitchell, STAT, 22 May 2020
  • But their necks are light and flexible, with 17 cervical vertebrae to our seven, and easily move up and down, side to side, and front to back.
    National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Reilly pointed to how her industry has done important work on curative or preventative medicines, such as a cervical cancer vaccine.
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Whoever killed her had brutally overpowered her, however, bashing her in the neck with such force that her fourth cervical vertebra, which lies just behind the throat, was broken.
    Amber Hunt, Cincinnati.com, 23 June 2020
  • Much of my lab’s work is in uterine cervical cancer, which has been dropping in incidence in the U.S. due to appropriate screening and control.
    Deborah Watkins Bruner, STAT, 1 May 2020
  • She was examined by a gynecologist who discovered a malignant tumor on her cervix and diagnosed her with cervical cancer.
    Korin Miller, Health.com, 24 June 2020
  • This will help stretch out that muscle and open up some of the joint space in the cervical spine.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 17 Jan. 2023
  • In 2017, the HPV cervical screening test replaced the pap smear test.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 4 July 2022
  • For cervical cancer there are two types of screening: the Pap and HPV test.
    Grace Wade, Health.com, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Feel a stretch from the base of your skull down through your cervical vertebrae.
    Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Sure enough, the cervical mucus of the females had stronger effect on the sperm of some males than others, the study found.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The cause was cervical cancer, her wife, Kellen Mori, said.
    Annabelle Williams, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • However, the joints of the cervical spine in the neck, and most of the shoulder joint, are deeper than the Voltaren can penetrate.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The virus, also known as HPV, can lead to cervical cancer.
    Giovana Gelhoren, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The team listed the injury as a cervical strain prior to Game 4.
    Doyle Rader, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • Try to keep the cervical spine neutral throughout the movement.
    Milo F. Bryant, Men's Health, 29 June 2022
  • The cervical pillow comes in three sizes and four colors.
    Isabel Garcia, Health.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • When that curve is lost, it is called loss of cervical lordosis.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Sperm can live up to five days in fertile cervical mucus.
    Christin Perry, Parents, 30 June 2023
  • Use the tension of your hands and arms to weigh your cervical spine down while maintaining a straight thoracic spine.
    Stephanie Mansour, CNN, 18 Dec. 2020
  • On top of all that, when the couple aimed for a 2022 opening, Heather was diagnosed with cervical cancer the same year.
    Alex Darus, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The cervical cancer rate for Hmong women is three times that of the rate for all Asian Americans (and four times that of white women).
    Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Ending a cancer: The lives of five million women could be saved by 2050 if the world joins forces to wipe out cervical cancer.
    Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2020
  • In the campaign video, the singer shares that Black women are twice as likely as white women to die from cervical cancer.
    Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2021
  • However, the fracture of the seventh cervical vertebra of the spine would not heal on its own.
    Eric Willemsen, ajc, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The same types that cause cervical cancers also cause throat cancers.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • During vaginal birth, these bones shift to help a baby fit through the cervical opening and narrow birth canal.
    Maria Carter, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The progestin hormone thickens cervical mucus to block sperm from reaching the egg.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Oct. 2024

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