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They said my slipped vertibrae was just a "cause of life" and even after the work comp board ruled it was due to my accident they said they were powerless to make the insurance co. pay for the surgery so I am now disabled and lost my home.
LIVE Blog: Landmark health care bill heads to Obama's desk 2010
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Major Kira lay on the deck on Level Four, held prone by a heavy foot planted on her cervical vertibrae.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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Major Kira lay on the deck on Level Four, held prone by a heavy foot planted on her cervical vertibrae.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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So, this “backbone”s got about 15 or 16 vertibrae.
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Broken vertibrae with the imprint of the heavy, metal chains used to break bones still imprinted down their spines.
partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2001
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There is -- as I have explained -- a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertibrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.
The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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There is -- as I have explained -- a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertibrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.
The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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The wound near the spine (Dorsal vertibrae) not yet healed - Nor will he be fit for duty in a less time than two weeks.
Augusta County: W. Churchman to [unknown], August and September, 1863 W. Churchman 1863
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By the time I reached Nepal, however, my back would have become an open weeping sore from top to bottom and my thoracic vertibrae would have fused.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk Ben Thomas 2010
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I would like to know the dimensions of the vertibrae shown in the photo - the article just mention the possible length of the snake but not the body width.
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