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But these young women all suffered a rare kind of stroke caused by a vertebral artery dissection, or VAD.

With one incision Balsamo separated the vertebral column a couple of inches from the brain, and opened a yawning gash.

The vertebral bones serve as mortars in which fish, which have been previously dried in the sun, are pounded.

I may conclude this chapter by a brief view of the Fauna of the higher vertebral animals.

The vertebral column itself is limp and soft, the vertebræ only imperfectly formed and made of soft cartilage.

A single one of these fist-blows, planted in the back, would suffice to break the vertebral column.