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The needles will prompt your nerves to send pain-relieving and mood-regulating messages to the brain and spinal cord.
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Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024
The larger particles stayed behind, just at the border between the spinal cord and the beginning of the peripheral nerves.
—Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 4 Sep. 2024
With the urinary system, spinal cord compression can cause difficulty beginning urination, a weak urine stream, or difficulty fully emptying the bladder.
—Julie Scott, Msn, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
On a bright red background, purple and yellow triangles, overlaid with shadows of Barney’s omnipresent Field Emblem and a form like a twisted spinal cord, meet at a point, making a pattern like glass struck with a gunshot.
—Lillian Davies, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
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Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024
The larger particles stayed behind, just at the border between the spinal cord and the beginning of the peripheral nerves.
—Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 4 Sep. 2024
With the urinary system, spinal cord compression can cause difficulty beginning urination, a weak urine stream, or difficulty fully emptying the bladder.
—Julie Scott, Msn, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
On a bright red background, purple and yellow triangles, overlaid with shadows of Barney’s omnipresent Field Emblem and a form like a twisted spinal cord, meet at a point, making a pattern like glass struck with a gunshot.
—Lillian Davies, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
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Between each vertebra is a disc that provides cushioning between the bones.Jennifer Steinhoff, Verywell Health, 22 Oct. 2024
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Fit starts with torso length, which is typically measured from your C7 vertebra at the base of your neck to the iliac crest at your hips.Wes Siler, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024
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Smashing home Barca's third goal in the top corner past a hapless Andriy Lunin, Lamine mocked Vinicius Jr. by copying his celebration dance with Alejandro Balde, and also pointed to the name on his back in front of the home crowd like Madrid legend Cristiano Ronaldo once did at Camp Nou.Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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Bob came out of nowhere and hitchhiked to New York City with a guitar on his back.Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
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The populist and segregationist Democrat who famously blocked Black students from entering the University of Alabama wasn’t killed in the attack but ended up paralyzed from the waist down; one of the bullets had lodged in his spinal column, his presidential campaign cut short.Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2024
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Spinal Metastasis Sometimes, lung cancer spreads to the spinal column (known as spinal metastasis).Joy Emeh, Health, 3 July 2024
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When bending to lift from the floor, force is exerted by the lower back muscles and the vertebral column is the pivot point.Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 30 May 2024
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The researchers dug up a partial vertebral column, composed of 27 vertebrae in total, from a mine in the Kutch District in Gujarat State on India’s western coast.Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
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“Spinal cord.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spinal%20cord. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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