Word: vertebrae
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...Giants stadium, Jets defensive lineman Dennis Byrd lay motionless, unable to move his hands or legs. With all the power of his 266 lbs. of hurtling flesh, Byrd had unintentionally rammed his helmeted head into the chest of his 275-lb. teammate Scott Mersereau. The impact crumpled a vertebra in Byrd's neck, crushing part of the underlying spinal cord as well as plunging dagger-like slivers of bone into the soft, vital nerve tissue...
...their small sublet wondering whether to unpack. One day Koop returned to find tears rolling down her face, a critical newspaper article on her lap. He considered leaving, but Betty persuaded him to stay. The two had been through a lot -- long years of medical school, Koop's fractured vertebra and stomach surgery and, worst of all, the death of a son -- and they stuck it out. Finally, in November 1981, he was confirmed by a Republican-controlled Senate...
Both aircraft were total losses. The pilot walked away from the first, cracked a vertebra in the second. What is more, the Federal Aviation Administration cited him 13 times for the second crash. Among his wrongdoings, said the FAA, was flying too low. That was a hard charge to dodge, since it is difficult to keep your nose up when you are unconscious and going down. In the end he enriched...
Carlson-Molan fractured a vertebra last month when she fell off the rear door of a new campus shuttle...
...school student at the University of Michigan suffered second-degree burns and a broken vertebra last week when he was forced to jump from his third-floor dormitory window to escape a fire which Ann Arbor police suspect may have been set deliberately...