noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
communication cord
cut the umbilical cord
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Teenage boys especially feel a need to cut the umbilical cord tying them to their mothers.
emergency cord
spinal cord
umbilical cord
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All modern popular music has an umbilical cord linking back to blues and R and B.
vocal cords
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
spinal
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Low levels of hybridization are also detectable in other regions of the spinal cord .
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Invasion of the spinal cord causes paralysis of the arms and legs or of the trunk.
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For example, it is absent in such diverse conditions as constipation, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and thoracic spinal cord injuries.
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Or worse: a disk slipped, or the spinal cord snapped?
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In the same way, nerve cells in the spinal cord show activity whenever a particular movement is made by the arm.
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The ball had entered his body in front and passed out near the spinal cord , paralyzing him in legs and arms.
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But Peter's back was broken and his spinal cord damaged.
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And the fifth layer sends signals to other deep and distant neural structures, sometimes even the spinal cord .
umbilical
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A search for a suitable bone marrow or umbilical cord donor for Garrett is under way.
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The doctor hunts for the umbilical cord on the ultra sound scanner to take a sample.
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When my daughter still had her umbilical cord , my husband worried about infection.
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Severing the umbilical cord between landlords and peasants vastly increased the proportion of the population for which the centre was directly responsible.
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The stump where the umbilical cord breaks after foaling is a potential route for pathogens into the foal's system.
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Discussion Immediate umbilical cord clamping deprives neonates of a significant volume of blood.
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The door hangs off its hinges, the cash register ripped from its electronic umbilical cord .
vocal
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In addition to the ordinary vocal cords , the cat possesses a second pair of structures called vestibular folds, or false vocal cords.
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Those corn-rows are murder on the vocal cords .
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When sounds are unvoiced, the vocal cords are relaxed to allow the air a completely free passage.
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Not surprising in that it no longer possessed vocal cords .
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No vibration is caused by the vocal cords because they are not being put into action.
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With an effort, she made them part, and then her vocal cords let her down by refusing to work.
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The false vocal cord theory is the most obvious and the simplest.
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It explains the otherwise puzzling presence of the second, or false, pair of vocal cords .
■ NOUN
clamping
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Most of the previous research into the timing of cord clamping has concentrated on babies born near term.
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We did not time onset of respiration relative to cord clamping but many infants in the regulated group were already crying.
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Discussion Immediate umbilical cord clamping deprives neonates of a significant volume of blood.
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We believe, however, that further study is needed before firm recommendations about umbilical cord clamping can be made.
communication
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The man opposite me yanks the communication cord , and we lurch to a halt.
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I came close to pulling the communication cord .
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Overhead is a communication cord , as in a train.
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And on the second train from Oxford they pulled the communication cord to try to avoid us.
emergency
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That coppery twang on the emergency cord that hangs tight in his gut.
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An officer allegedly pulled the emergency cord as a joke.
injury
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For example, it is absent in such diverse conditions as constipation, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and thoracic spinal cord injuries .
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With spinal cord injuries , recovery can be prolonged.
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Ten patients had been treated for prostate cancer and one had experienced a spinal cord injury .
nylon
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Push behind latches. 6 Hook up neckband on first row, push behind latches and remove waste and nylon cord .
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Replacing the nylon cord on the hood with shock cord would save the eyes getting a lashing in the wind.
■ VERB
cut
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The maternal bond had been cut with the umbilical cord - at birth.
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Boys in particular need to cut the umbilical cord .
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She would cut the cord that bound her to them cleanly and irrevocably.
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Before it could, I cut the cord and took it into the ante-room.
pull
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She pulled the white cord so tight it cut red weals into the white flesh.
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So as I moved toward the wall, I pulled the cord with me.
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I came close to pulling the communication cord .
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Chops responds, without pausing in his frantic pulling on the starter cord .
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And on the second train from Oxford they pulled the communication cord to try to avoid us.
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I stumbled back and sat down heavily on the plinth, then staggered upright and pulled my cords back up.
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When the shrine was full, Kalchu began to pull the cord of the big brass bell hanging above his head.
tie
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He poked his nose outside to see if he could tie off the cord .
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A pound and a quarter of C-4 explosive was tied with an explosive cord to wooden crates holding the rockets.
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After pulling up the curtain to the desired width, tie the cords neatly but do not cut them off.
use
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And who used different words. cords Sethe understood then but could neither recall nor repeat now.
wear
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Neither officer seems to wear cords on the M1889 field hat, identified by its lack of brass screen ventilators.
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He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots.
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Andy wore cords , shirt and jumper and body-warmer; a cap hung from the top of one of the nearby posts.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut the (umbilical) cord
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Before it could, I cut the cord and took it into the ante-room.
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Boys in particular need to cut the umbilical cord.
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She would cut the cord that bound her to them cleanly and irrevocably.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her glasses hung around her neck on a silky cord .
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The phone cord is all tangled.
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Three cords of wood should last us all winter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Flooring should be non-committal: plain, functional cord fitted carpet, or rubber stud flooring.
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Invasion of the spinal cord causes paralysis of the arms and legs or of the trunk.
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See you know I set up the printer, the computer, even get a cord to connect them.
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She attached a cord and started wearing them around her neck.
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She pulled the white cord so tight it cut red weals into the white flesh.
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She says that he was hanging by his dressing gown cord from a banister.
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They receive messages from virtually every nerve in the human body via connections with the optic nerve and spinal cord .