One of his hands traced a heated path along each of her vertebras.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savor Me Slowly] Reference

And actually what Republicans were able to do, their vertebras again, they finally have a backbone.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2009] Reference

Common injuries are dislocated vertebras, damaged nerve tissue, or strained muscles and/or tendons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

A 750-pound cement slab fell on his head, crushing his vertebras, which they said, you know, it's a miracle he's still alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2007] Reference

They consist of one of the bones of the cranium, fifteen or twenty vertebras, two entire ribs, and part of a third, one thigh bone, two bones of the leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829] Reference

It was taking a little bit of pressure off of the spinal cord because two of my vertebras had been pushed in, and exploded and they were really pushing the spinal cord to the bitter end.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009] Reference

He slit their stomachs open from the gills back to the tail and scooped out the entrails and threw them in the river, then he snapped the heads off cleanly by breaking the vertebras backwards; then he cut two long slices along the dorsal fin from front to back and peeled the skin off in strips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half of Paradise] Reference

Bruin opened his powerful jaws and with a single bite crushed the vertebras of the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear] Reference

These are the Rocky Mountains, the American Andes, the colossal vertebras of the continent!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

Saudi Press Agency says surgeons will "stabilize a number of vertebras" on Friday afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Its peculiar characteristic is its extraordinary fragility -- arising from the muscles being articulated quite through the vertebras.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

I have serious back problems (fused vertebras in my neck, old compression fracture in middle of my back and deginerative disk things going on in my lower back) and severe arthritis all up and down my back.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

The first then secures the animal by a few turns of the lasso round it, while a matador strikes his dagger into the vertebras at the back of the head, when the animal drops as if struck by an electric spark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The method uses electromagnetic tracking and facilitates interventions such as precise and quick needle placements - for liver biopsies, for vertebroplasties when stabilizing fractured vertebras, or for cancer pain treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

The fossils consist of several frag - ments of vertebras, and one of immense size nearly perfect; together with specimens of the soil, and several osteological fragments too much mutilated to offer any descriptive characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Hospital, being treated for a broken leg; Phillip Pannell, a resident of one of one of the destroyed mobile homes, remained in Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., being treated for a broken arm and injured vertebras.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times-Journal: News] Reference

After landing at SeaTac, Obungen was taken directly to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center, where he spent the next five weeks in rehab doing adaptive therapy for his injuries, which required the fusing of a massive metal cage over four vertebras in his spine.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Stories - Federal Way Mirror] Reference

Could he only get up into the body of the crowd -- for the herd now ran in a crowd -- a few whimpers would suffice to explain -- they would come to a halt at once, -- they would gather around him, and assist both with hoofs and teeth to get "shed" of the ugly two-legged thing that clung so tightly to his dorsal vertebras.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family] Reference

His most important zoological work is the "Histoire des animaux sans vertebras" (7 vols.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

"magnetises our poor vertebras," in Verlaine's phrase, and not the mere skill of his fingers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference

Treatments of: Common cold, stressed vertebras, column, scoliosis, hemiplagia, lumbago, osteoarthritis (shoulders, knees), sports lesions, high blood pressure, insomnia, headache, gastritis, children asthma, renal failure, neuralgia, temporary paralysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living in Peru : News] Reference

A great many well-ascertained facts, that the different breeds of Pigeons, the Carriers, Pouters, and Tumblers, might vary in any of their internal and important structural characters to a very great degree; not only might there be changes in the proportions of the skull, and the characters of the feet and beaks, and so on; but that there might be an absolute difference in the number of the vertebrae of the back, as in the sacral vertebras of the Pouter; and so great is the extent of the variation in these and similar characters that I pointed out to you, by reference to the skeletons and the diagrams, that these extreme varieties may absolutely differ more from one another in their structural characters than do what naturalists call distinct SPECIES of pigeons; that is to say, that they differ so much in structure that there is a greater difference between the Pouter and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02] Reference