Word: compressional
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When the spinal cord suffers a blow, vertebrae are compressed, and if the force is great enough, fractured. The sheer force of the blow kills some nerves instantly. Then the compression causes electrical impulses traveling through nerve cells in the area to go haywire, and the overload causes many neurons...
At U.Va., Reeve came under the care of a noted neurosurgeon and teacher of neurosurgeons, John Jane, who would operate on Reeve himself. Before that, however, Reeve needed to be stabilized to prevent any more compression in the spine. He was placed on a bed with a kind of halo...
The lab analysis can determine which way metal was torn and whether it was ripped by the compression of a blast or by being struck by a heavy object. Rivets that loosened or popped off will be examined to determine the direction and force of the pressures to which they...
That same day Helprin was meeting with John Buckley, the new communications adviser, at Union Station, when Buckley got a message for Helprin to phone Dole. Helprin called from a pay phone, and Dole asked him to take a shot at writing a resignation statement. For the next few weeks...
Feldman says neither of these proposals are seen as solutions to grade inflation, although creating a new grade might combat grade compression--which is when professors have fewer grading options to distinguish between students at the top of the spectrum.