His spine crawled with a foreboding premonition as he asked one of his fellow tenants what had happened.

The codex also made it easier to organize documents in a library because it had a stable spine on which the title of the book could be written.

The most serious injuries were special teams coach Joe DeCamillis, who suffered fractured cervical vertebrae and had surgery to stabilize fractured vertebrae in his neck, and Rich Behm, the team's 33-year-old scouting assistant, who was permanently paralyzed from the waist down after his spine was severed.

The research also showed that Tutankhamun had " a slightly cleft palate " and possibly a mild case of scoliosis, a medical condition in which the spine is curved from side to side.

Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had some 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle.

I could not remain at home because, if I had, every knock at the door would have sent shivers up my spine.

It turns out that he did not leave Nelson deliberately ; he bit into a chocolate bar, not knowing it had peanuts and had an allergic reaction that gave him neurofibramatosis which impacted his wisdom tooth in the upper left corner with a large bone coming out of the jaw which went into his spine, covering 90 % of his body with large tumors of chronic bronchitis.

In order to correct it, she had to undergo an 18 month ordeal of painful stretchings, body casts, surgery on her spine using pieces of one of her shin bones ( used to add supports for the individual vertebrae without risking foreign body rejection issues ), and a recovery from that surgery.

The Prince was shot just to the right of his spine, and was tended for the next two weeks by six nurses, trained by Florence Nightingale and led by Matron Lucy Osburn, who had just arrived in Australia in February, 1868.

The consequent medical examination revealed that Dunglass had a hole in his spine surrounded by tuberculosis in the bone.

If he had cut off those forces as had been planned and ordered, they could have been destroyed in the same way as was achieved in France, and the German resistance in Italy would have collapsed and the Allies could have advanced up the spine of Italy and invaded Austria and southern Germany.

The doctors surmised that after passing through his lung, the bullet had damaged his spine.

In the 1817 report to Parliament witnesses reported that climbing boys suffered from general neglect, In addition they exhibited stunted growth and deformity of the spine, legs and arms, that, in the 1810s, was put down to being required to remain in abnormal positions for long periods of time before their bones had hardened ..

He was knocked unconscious, had severe lacerations to his face and head ( needing over 100 stitches ), had three fractures to his skull, cracked ribs, damaged jaw, teeth, kidneys and damage to his back and spine ( these plagued him through the rest of his life ).

Richard Owen, his long-time nemesis, had a section of Mantell's spine removed, pickled and stored on a shelf at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

In 1988 it was discovered that he had a benign tumor enveloping his spine.

Half of Powell's pelvis had snapped off its rear anchor on the lower spine.

Meanwhile, to the west of the Eighth Army on the other side of the Apennine mountains, Italy's central mountain spine, the U. S. Fifth Army had also been fighting its way north.

In 2005 Kookaburra released a new type of bat that had a Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer support down the spine of the bat.

Nessus had accurately kicked a man's heart out through his splintered spine.

The 3rd Light Horse Brigade had begun its advance before dawn and, attacking along the spine of the Atawineh ridge, managed to approach to within 800 yards of the redoubt before being sighted.

Nora proposes asking him for a favor, to which Rank reveals that he has entered the terminal stage of tuberculosis of the spine ( a contemporary euphemism for congenital syphilis ), and that he has always been secretly in love with her.

Once a syrinx has formed, pressure differences along the spine have been proposed to be one mechanism causing fluid movement within the cyst, possibly resulting in damage to the spinal cord.

Java is almost entirely of volcanic origin ; it contains thirty-eight mountains forming an east-west spine which have at one time or another been active volcanoes.

The side, or subaural knot, has been shown to produce other, more complex injuries, with one thoroughly studied case producing only ligamentous injuries to the cervical spine and bilateral vertebral artery disruptions, but no major vertebral fractures or crush injuries to the spinal cord.

The SID ( Side Impact Dummy ) family of test dummies has been designed to measure rib, spine, and internal organ effects in side collisions.

The meaning of Dyrrachium (" bad spine " or " difficult ridge " in Greek ) is unclear, but it has been suggested that it refers to the imposing cliffs near the city.

Furthermore, " one woman who was said to have been cured of spinal cancer threw away her brace and ran across the stage at Kuhlman's command ; her spine collapsed the next day, according to Nolen, and she died four months later.

Historically it was the main road between Edinburgh and John o ' Groats, and has been called the spine of Scotland.

Occasionally, the consort will strike out at the competitor with the mid femora, which are equipped with an enlarged and hooked spine in both sexes that has been observed to draw the blood of the opponent when they are flexed against the body to puncture the integument.

In lab animals of all ages, environmental enrichment has been related to dendritic branching, spine density, and overall number of synapses.

In addition, changes in spine stability and strengthening occur rapidly and have been observed within hours after training.

After stroke, a marked increase in structural plasticity occurs near the trauma site, and a five-to eightfold increase from control rates in spine turnover has been observed.

While a net loss of spines is observed in Alzheimer's disease and cases of mental retardation, cocaine and amphetamine use have been linked to increases in dendritic branching and spine density in the prefrontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens.

Shih was severely injured during interrogation, he lost all his teeth and his spine was damaged, consequently, he has been using dental prosthetics and suffering from back pain since he was 22.

Although claims have been made for chiropractic care, under the theory that treating subluxations in the spine may decrease symptoms, a 2006 systematic review found that overall no evidence suggests that spinal manipulation is effective for treatment of primary and secondary dysmenorrhea.

These protein kinases have been linked to growth in dendritic spine volume and LTP processes such as the addition of AMPA receptors to the plasma membrane and phosphorylation of ion channels for enhanced permeability.

In comatose patients, once it has been determined that the cervical spine is intact, a test of the vestibulo-ocular reflex can be performed by turning the head to one side.

A large preopercular spine is characteristic of this group, and has been reported to be venomous in some species.

The sail of Dimetrodon may have been used to stabilize its spine or to heat and cool its body as a form of thermoregulation.

The large groove that runs the length of the spine was once thought to be a channel for blood vessels, but since the bone does not contain vascular canals, the sail is not thought to have been as highly vascularized as once thought.

Also like other anglerfishes, the first spine of the spinous dorsal fin has been modified as an angling apparatus ( illicium ) that bears a bulb-like or fleshy lure ( esca ).