6 sentences with 'spinal'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spinal and other words derived from it.
• « The operation had begun two hours earlier. Doctors Epstein and Wisoff had before them Luis Olmedo, seven years old, with his spinal cord exposed. »
• « 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. »
• « Zoster is an acute inflammatory condition of one or more sensory, spinal or intracranial ganglia caused by a virus similar to chickenpox. »
• « 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. »