7 sentences with 'cord'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cord and other words derived from it.
• « Mrs. Jane Thurston had a seven-year-old son, Julian, who had been diagnosed with an inoperable spinal cord tumor. »
• « Since his success with Julian, the surgeon had performed about 200 spinal cord operations; one of them on Luis Olmedo himself, in 1985. But unlike Julian, whose tumor was benign, Luis' was malignant. »
• « Tendon is a strong, flexible, fibrous cord that connects one muscle to another, or one muscle to a bone. »
• « Hair dryers can be as deadly as a loose electrical cord. Submerged in water, even if turned off, they can short-circuit and produce a lethal shock. »
• « This rare and incurable disease attacks the nerves in the spinal cord and regions of the brain that control voluntary motor functions. The cells gradually degenerate, causing paralysis as muscles throughout the body atrophy. »
• « At the base of the brain is the medulla oblongata, directly connected to the spinal cord; attached to it, the cerebellum communicates with the thalamus, hypothalamus and limbic system. »