spinal column
脊柱,脊椎骨,脊椎柱,脊椎
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- : the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
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Whenever you stretch a muscle, these sensory receptors tell neurons within the muscle to fire a signal back to the central nervous system through the spinal column.
Adult lampreys have a spinal column and swim through the water in search of fish, which they latch onto and bleed out with a tooth-filled mouth.
Sometimes a column has the economy and rhythm of a short story.
Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.
My editor called and said, “Do a column on this Lena Dunham flap!”
His sign was the last one people saw as the column of marchers passed them, it read, “Am I next?”
My two eyes haven't quite the same focal length and this often puts me out of the straight with a column of figures.
The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier's spinal column.
He leaned against that same stone column, thinking, searching in his mind, feeling acutely.
Track of the count may be kept by placing a mark for each leukocyte in its appropriate column, ruled upon paper.
The last thing—against the skyline—a little column of French soldiers of the line charging back upwards towards the lost redoubt.