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spina

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Spina was an Etruscan port city, established by the end of the 6th century BCE, on the Adriatic at the ancient mouth of the Po , south of the lagoon which would become the site of Venice . The site of Spina was lost until modern times, when drainage schemes ...

Usage examples of spina.

Children with something worse than missing limbs, or hydrocephaly or spina bifida or muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy.

The committee charged with carrying out the program issued instructions to all Reich health agencies to register children born with congenital deformities, including idiocy, Mongolism, microcephaly, hydrocephaly, missing limbs, malformation of the head, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, mental retardation, and other congenital diseases.

You may recall a particularly puzzling bit of mean-spiritedness in the Republican recision bill: the decision to cut the Supplemental Security Income that goes to poor children with crippling conditions such as spina bifida.

Spotting, cramping, placenta previa, umbilical prolapse, spina bifida, and harelip-the list really was endless.

Those who were most famous in my younger days were Ancilla and another called Spina, both the daughters of gondoliers, and both killed very young by the excesses of a profession which, in their eyes, was a noble one.

Venice has always been blessed with courtezans more celebrated by their beauty than their wit. Those who were most famous in my younger days were Ancilla and another called Spina, both the daughters of gondoliers, and both killed very young by the excesses of a profession which, in their eyes, was a noble one.

Why did he gift them with these deformities, why not merely with old-fashioned spina bifida or muscular dystrophy or retardation or fetal alcohol syndrome?

At the age of twenty-two, Ancilla turned a dancer and Spina became a singer.

A popliteal aneurism, a Colles' fracture, a spina bifida, a tropical abscess, and an elephantiasis.

A chi le domandava sue notizie, la madre aveva ripetuto che il ricovero si era reso necessario per un intervento di chinirgia correttiva alla spina dorsale, ma intanto i mesi si erano trasformati in anni senza che Sam tornasse a casa.

Cec ily was a spina bifida case who "ought" to have been corrected in utero but had not been.

Il viaggio intrapreso non lo aveva rispar­miato: aveva sul collo e sulla faccia e lungo la spina dorsale i segni dell'intervento della Quiddità.