What is "cervical"

Usage examples of "cervical".

A patent ductus arteriosus makes a continuous shushing murmur, soft, but audible with a little concentration, particularly in the supraclavicular and cervical regions.

This is especially true for cervical and liver cancers, as well as some lymphomas.

The spindles were fixed between the seat and the wide slab of radius-cut pine that served as the headrail, and the headrail was so solid that it would do major damage if it cracked into her cervical vertebrae with sufficient force.

Rockwell reports a case of unilateral hyperidrosis in a feeble old man which he thought due to organic affection of the cervical sympathetic.

He mentions cutting a lemon in half, extracting most of the juice, and using the disc as a cervical cap, an ingenious and effective method that would have a spermicidal effect as well.

Tenderness and hyperesthesia over the spinous processes of the 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical vertebrae led to the application of the thermocautery, which, in conjunction with the administration of ergot and bromide, was attended with marked benefit, though not by complete cure.

Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus, thereby causing the elastic pores of the corpora cavernosa to rapidly dilate in such a way as to instantaneously facilitate the flow of blood to that part of the human anatomy known as the penis or male organ resulting in the phenomenon which has been denominated by the faculty a morbid upwards and outwards philoprogenitive erection in articulo mortis per diminutionem capitis.

Of course the best thing about the phone conversation was learning that the cervical biopsy was normal.

He injected her in several locations, explaining to her that he was giving her a para cervical block to anesthetize the cervix.

All they had to do was schedule these women for a minor procedure of some sort, like a cervical biopsy.

Borsele wished to see what progress had been made, so she lifted arms and legs, demonstrated the head traction on one unfortunate young man who had had a fracture of his cervical spine, and then assisted an elderly man to demonstrate his walking powers.

The blade sliced through the windpipe and larynx, nicking the cervical vertebrae.

She liked to have her lucky pottery pig with her when she did a job or went for an audition or had a cervical smear.

The slug angled off the spine and exited through the second cervical vertebra in a burst of pink spray.

I have also pleased myself by making a special group of the six radiating muscles which diverge from the spine of the axis, or second cervical vertebra, and by giving to it the name stella musculosa nuchaee.