Definitions
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- adverb In a
spinal manner.
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- adverb in the spine
Etymologies
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Examples
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"It's actually been a pretty popular procedure lately," said Dr. Backam, the doctor who will perform spinal surgery on the "spinally-deprived" Cheney.
Ben Berkon: Dick Cheney's Spine Surgery to Install Much-Needed Spine in Formerly Spineless Body
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Looks like Grant Peterson has decided his frame company should try and actually make money with the general public, as opposed to just the wealthy spinally-challenged.
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Within the past week, there have been numerous "spinally-improved" Republicans who have switched their views on health care, the direction of the economy, and general attitude towards "black people."
Ben Berkon: Dick Cheney's Spine Surgery to Install Much-Needed Spine in Formerly Spineless Body
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\ "It\'s actually been a pretty popular procedure lately, \" said Dr. Backam, the doctor who will perform spinal surgery on the \ "spinally-deprived\" Cheney.
Ben Berkon: Dick Cheney's Spine Surgery to Install Much-Needed Spine in Formerly Spineless Body
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\ "It\'s actually been a pretty popular procedure lately, \" said Dr. Backam, the doctor who will perform spinal surgery on the \ "spinally-deprived\" Cheney.
Ben Berkon: Dick Cheney's Spine Surgery to Install Much-Needed Spine in Formerly Spineless Body
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They run sports courses for spinally injured people, the idea being to promote individual learning and independence through activity - not 'disabled holidays' but real challenges to stretch you.
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In the late 1980s, national surveys indicated that only about 20 percent of pregnant women got an epidural — a spinally-administered anesthetic that blocks pain in the lower half of the body — while in labor.
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The procession wound their way into the sacred grove, which had spinally aged trees and was ringed with open columns supporting a narrow battlement.
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In a seven-hour judgment, Judge Paddington Garwe said that by giving the high doses of McGown "sailed in uncharted waters" and appeared to deliberately challenge respected medical opinion on the dangers of spinally injected anaesthetics.
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The judge ruled McGown must have known of the dangers of spinally-injected morphine, but ignored them.
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