"Cervical vertebra" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... deep cavity on the corresponding part in some carnivora to which it answers, may perhaps be claimed as deserving attention. 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. But this scanty catalogue is only an evidence that one may teach long and see little that has not been noted by those who have gone before him. Of course I do not think it necessary to include rare, but already described anomalies, ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... Highlander wounded at Magersfontein, probably at a range within 1,000 yards, the bullet entered at the right side of the sixth cervical vertebra; tracking downwards, it loosened the laminae of the fifth and sixth dorsal vertebrae from the pedicles, and separated the tip of the seventh spine. The bullet was extracted from beneath the skin at the latter spot, ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins |
