cervical vertebra in a sentence

Examples

1. Her spinal cord was severed, and she had sustained fractures to her jawbone, ribs, and a cervical vertebra.
2. From the fifth cervical vertebra onwards large depressions appear on the lower rear side of the vertebral body.
3. Its type specimen consisted of a large posterior cervical vertebra found in Cretaceous-aged chalk deposits in Sussex, England.
4. He crumpled to the ice with a shattered fourth cervical vertebra, his body paralyzed from the neck down.
5. The preserved cervical vertebra has a centrum length of 46 millimetres and a centrum height of 34 millimetres.
6. However, after receiving X-ray results, she was found to have suffered a hairline fracture on the seventh cervical vertebra.
7. The anterior tubercle of the sixth cervical vertebra is known as the "'carotid tubercle "'or "'Chassaignac tubercle " '.
8. He suffered a fractured fifth cervical vertebra and, according to medical reports, came within millimeters of being rendered quadriplegic.
9. Blundell has recovered from a small fracture of the seventh cervical vertebra suffered while testing at Gateway on May 4.
10. Of the vertebrae, only the atlas bone ( the first cervical vertebra ) and the sacrum and tail vertebrae are preserved.