Word: spined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Administration's proposal to use special and most likely secret military tribunals [THE LEGAL WAR, Nov. 26] to try those it considers terrorists, said, "The defendant has neither the absolute right to challenge the evidence against him nor the right to hear it." This statement sent chills down my spine. Is this still America? RICHARD A. BUSEMEYER Boca Raton...
...still not healing, he probably will prescribe a little machine that you wear around the break for an hour a day, and it will help the healing process. That's Orthologic's expertise. The sexy part of the story is they've just come out with a spine product that could grow revenue 30% a year...
...pager-size pump just under the skin of the abdomen. A plastic catheter runs from the pump to the fluid-filled space outside the spinal cord, where pain signals travel. When the patient presses a handheld remote, the pump sends a measured dose of morphine directly to the spine. According to its maker, the SynchroMed works better and requires much smaller doses of medication than intravenous methods because it intercepts pain signals on their way to the brain...
...Hekmatullah's house cracked apart like an egg. So did Hekmatullah. A bullet shattered his leg, and another lodged itself inches from his spine. His brother Abdul Halim rushed him to Kandahar hospital. But that night there were dozens of wounded, lying in the corridors on a stinking, bloodstained floor, and the doctors had fled during the night's bombing...
...other painkillers or anesthetics. With so many Afghans fleeing the cities, another six days passed before Abdul Halim found a car that would take him past Kandahar to the Chaman border, a distance of over 150 miles. Imagine riding six days over dirt roads with a bullet near your spine and another in your leg on the worst roads in the hemisphere...