The doctors said it wasn't yet known if the spinal column injury had caused any paralysis.

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Even nerve cells in the spinal column might be regenerated, allowing the paralyzed to walk again.

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Goldenhar Syndrome is a congenital condition that produces abnormalities of the head and the bones of the spinal column.

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Doctors replaced the spinal cord into the spinal column and closed up the back just as they would on a newborn.

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Another common problem for children with spina bifida is called hindbrain herniation in which part of the brain and brainstem slip into the spinal column.

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Since 2004, the USDA has removed the brain and the spinal column, the parts suspected of causing mad cow disease in humans, from the food system.

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If the pregnancy is carried to term, the newborn needs an operationa few days later, so the spinal cord can be pushed back into the spinal column.

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He said there was no way of ensuring that the parts of the animals considered most dangerous, the brain and spinal column, were being removed safely.

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Each rat had, in effect, grown a new nervous system which ran from the motor cortexes of its brain, down its spinal column, past the breaks in its spine and into its back legs.

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The rats were placed in a harness on a treadmill which gave them the impression of having a working spinal column and they were encouraged to walk towards the end of a platform where a chocolate reward was waiting.

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The engine hood on the Roadster has a new central spinal column with two pairs of hexagonal windows connected at the sides as if they were plates of armor.

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Doctors at Rome's Umberto I Polyclinic said a 50-year-old brigadier had been hit in the neck by a bullet that damaged his spinal column and was lodged near his shoulder.

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It was noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his shoulder blades and that one leg was shorter than the other.

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