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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Backs include the pelvic bones and all the vertebrae posterior to the shoulder joint.
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But he suffered two fractured vertebrae in his neck and a broken lower back in a crash during practice two weeks ago.
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He crumpled to the ice with a shattered fourth cervical vertebra , his body paralyzed from the neck down.
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He danced around the area, shaking an Ascon, a gourd filled with snake vertebrae.
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I liked biology a lot more amoebas and vertebrae.
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In the summer of 1988 paleontologists in western Colorado uncovered the 135-million-year-old pelvis and vertebrae of Supersaurus.
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She was unaware that anyone had approached until she felt a touch on one of the vertebra of her spine.
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The vertebrae of the vertebral column are tightly interlocked, creating a rigid foundation for the tail muscles.