Sentence examples for cervical vertebra from inspiring English sources

X-rays revealed that Kaká had broken a cervical vertebra.

He emerged from a coma three days later, but his fourth cervical vertebra had been fractured.

The impact burst the fifth cervical vertebra and bruised his spinal cord.

GOALIE INJURIES -- Matt Hanson, a sophomore goaltender at Vermont, fractured a cervical vertebra in practice last Thursday.

They talk of C3s (the cord as it passes through the third cervical vertebra) or T8s (the eighth thoracic vertebra).

The first step can be difficult, thanks to curt descriptions and sometimes unappealing translations (Supreme Lamb Shoulder is "Under Cervical Vertebra and it taste soft").

His helmet slammed into the running back's knee, bursting the fifth cervical vertebra in his neck and bruising his spinal cord.

The centrum of the atlas (first cervical vertebra) of most mammals fuses with that of the axis (second cervical vertebra) and projects from it, but in the duckbilled platypus, as in the reptiles, it is a separate bone.

In my own case the 10 or 12 days that passed while I was waiting were filled by a very special kind of fear: I have a metastasis in a cervical vertebra.

The most commonly affected level is the sixth cervical vertebra.

Fracture and dislocation of cervical vertebra C2 over C3 was noted in this case.