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...wife makes no impression, Doug's bride-to-be is a briefly seen figure of increasing anxiety and Stu's longtime girlfriend is a shrew from Shrewsville. She's so stridently castrating that Stu's climactic display of spine - kind of like the chestbuster scene from Alien, only dorsal - is a given from...
...happens he knows a lot about marine life. From this specimen's conical-shaped snout and peculiar coloring - gray dorsal area, white underside - and the size of the beast - clearly longer than his 5.5-m. (18-ft.) boat - he identified it as a great white shark, the world's largest predatory fish. He may or may not have known that it is rare, but not unheard of, for white pointers to attack and even sink boats as long as 10 m. (33 ft.). Whatever the case, he didn't muck about: in a state somewhere between agitation and terror...
Translation? Too much material that appears in lecture or section for about three milliseconds surfaces out of nowhere like Jaws’ dorsal fin to bite you in the ass on the midterm and final, while stuff that takes up multiple lectures is never heard from again. This is not “Food and Culture,” folks. Science B skipped the lecture on “Um, Cores are Supposed to Be EASY, I’m Trying to Write a THESIS Here!”, so do yourself a favor...
Happily, spastic cerebral palsy is also the most treatable form of CP, largely thanks to a procedure known as selective dorsal rhizotomy, in which the nerve roots that are causing the problem are isolated and severed. Among the first to champion SDR in the U.S. in the late 1980s was Dr. T.S. Park, a Korean-born pediatric neurosurgeon at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., who has performed more than 800 of these operations and hopes to do an additional 1,000 before he retires...
Peering through a microscope and guided by an electric probe, we were able to distinguish between the two groups of nerve roots leaving the spinal cord. The ventral roots send information to the muscle; the dorsal roots send information back to the spinal cord. The dorsal roots cause spasticity, and if just the right ones are severed, the symptoms can be greatly reduced...