262 examples of spinal in sentences

To get a clearer idea of the general plan on which the body is constructed, let us imagine its division into perfectly equal parts, one the right and the other the left, by a great knife severing it through the median, or middle line in front, backward through the spinal column, as a butcher divides an ox or a sheep into halves for the market.

In a section of the body thus planned the skull and the spine together are shown to have formed a tube, containing the brain and spinal cord.

The other parts of the body form a second tube (ventral) in front of the spinal or dorsal tube.

(Showing the dorsal and the ventral tubes.) A, the cranial cavity; B, the cavity of the nose; C, the mouth; D, the alimentary canal represented as a simple straight tube; E, the sympathetic nervous system; F, heart; G, diaphragm; H, stomach; K, end of spinal portion of cerebro-spinal nervous system.

It is a broad, curved bone, and rests on the topmost vertebra (atlas) of the backbone; its lower part is pierced by a large oval opening called the foramen magnum, through which the spinal cord passes from the brain (Fig. 15).

The Spinal Column.

16.The Spinal Column.]

The great nerve, known as the spinal cord, extends from the cranium through the entire length of this canal.

The bones of the spinal column are arranged in three slight and graceful curves.

The spinal column rests on a strong three-sided bone called the sacrum, or sacred-bone, which is wedged in between the hip bones and forms the keystone of the pelvis.

To show how the spinal vertebræ make a firm but flexible column.

When some young girl incurs spinal disease from some slight fall, which she ought not to have felt for an hour, or some business man breaks down in the prime of his years from some trifling over-anxiety, which should have left no trace behind, the popular verdict may be 'Mysterious Providence;' but the wiser observer sees the retribution for the folly of those misspent days which enfeebled the childish constitution instead of ripening it.

Of what can the creature's spinal column be made, to bear such a succession of blows!

They should make a line at right angles with your horse's spinal column.

97 The pointed javelin more successful flew, Which at his back the raging warrior threw; Amid the plaited scales it took its course, 100 And in the spinal marrow spent its force.

Thanks are due to Professor Edgar James Swift and Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to use a figure from "Mind in the Making"; and to J.B. Lippincott Company for adaptation of cuts from Villiger's "Brain and Spinal Cord.

At its base emerges the spinal cord, a long strand of nerve fibers extending down the spine.

The brain and spinal cord, with all its ramifications, are known as the nervous system.

In all these places we find ends of neurones which converge at the spinal cord and travel to the brain.

From here the fibers travel down through the spinal cord and out to the muscles.

The neural action accompanying this occurrence consists of an impression upon the nerve-cells in the eye, the conduction of the nervous current back to the visual area of the brain, the transmission of the current over association neurones to the motor area, then its transmission over the motor neurones, down the spinal cord, to the muscles that enable you to dodge the missile.

The nervous current thus generated is conducted over long nerve fibers, through the spinal cord to the brain where it is received and we experience a sensation.

Thence it pushes on, over association neurones in the brain to motor neurones, over which it passes down the spinal cord again to muscles, and ends in some movement.

Hodge showed that the size of the nucleus of the cell in the spinal cord of a bee diminished nearly 75 per cent, as a result of the day's activity, and that the nucleus became much less solid.

Edmé Froment had been struck on the spinal column by an exploding shell.

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