Word: vertebraed
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...neurophysiologists now see it, when a man gets a shot of penicillin in the buttock, the stab sends an impulse along the nerve fibers to the fourth lumbar vertebra (see diagram). Then the impulse travels upward and soon crosses over to the opposite side of the spinal cord for its journey toward the brain. Along the way it triggers an automatic reflex that causes the man to flinch and tighten his gluteal muscle. After the impulse reaches the thalamus, a major (and evolutionally ancient) junction box at the base of the brain, where it is perceived as pain, it proceeds...
...flicks remain more compelling than most of the shows that surround them. Films may go in one era and out the other, but even the flattest Tarzan epic or the corniest war saga offers a series of clues to history. Like a paleontologist reconstructing a Brontosaurus from a vertebra and two teeth, the patient late-show viewer can reconstruct some of the main currents of American thought...
...tragedy. Dayan was six feet down in a pit when the soft clay walls suddenly gave way, burying the general under their weight. Bystanders dug him out within a minute, rushed him to a hospital, where he was found to be suffering from two broken ribs, a fractured vertebra and possibly a damaged aorta. At week's end, though, doctors reported him out of danger and growling, "When do I get out of here...
...Dave Davis, who was an all-Ivy defensive tackle at Harvard while playing with a fractured vertebra, lost his final battle with injuries last week...
Defensive tackles Dave Davis and Skip Sviokla, who saw limited action in the Dartmouth game, will be going at full strength against Penn. Sviokla has sprained both knees, and was forced to miss the Cornell game with a sprained ankle. Davis has been suffering from a cracked vertebra...