Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasional failures at inopportune moments, the back is a marvel of biological engineering. It is not only the body's principal scaffolding, on which the skull, ribs, pelvis and shoulder bones are all anchored. It also serves as the major conduit for the bundles of nerves-the spinal cord-that link the brain with other parts...
...facets of one vertebra line up precisely with those of adjoining vertebrae, creating smoothly functioning facet joints. But sometimes a facet dislocates; all it may take is a sudden twist or bend. The bone may begin to press on the tiny nerves that run to it from the spinal cord. Like a herniated disc, facet-joint syndrome can be accompanied by severe pain...
...York City's St. Luke's Hospital says that he can usually pinpoint the patient's problem from this ritual alone. He also points out that the pattern of pain is itself a diagnostic tool. Reason: the nerve pathways branching off different areas of the spinal cord have been so well mapped that any pain along them can be used to point back to the spinal injury...
...nearby fire station. There he critically wounded himself with a shot in the forehead from the .22-cal. pistol. When policemen went to his isolated farmhouse eight miles from Daingerfield (pop. 2,800), they discovered his wife Gretchen bound to a kitchen chair with rope and telephone cord. On a table was a note: "Jeremiah says the King is the King of Kings." In the basement, the officers found a letter from the Soviet embassy in Washington informing King that he could not become a Soviet citizen, plus records of about $300 deposited this spring in a Swiss bank...
...KOVIC was born on the Fourth of July, 1946. When he was twenty-one, a Vietnamese thirty-caliber slug tore through his right shoulder, blasted through his lung and smashed his spinal cord to pieces...