The posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine.
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Examples for "back "
1 However, Australian industry bodies and state governments back new investment in agriculture.
2 People are getting back to work, a North Sea trade source said.
3 That takes away the power to use good information to fight back .
4 The government says the future will be different; they will come back .
5 Already, this week has seen BP scale back its North Sea operation.
1 The bullet entered the sole and emerged from the dorsum of the foot.
2 In two patients no reduction of the nasal dorsum was found.
3 Full-thickness skin wounds were created on the dorsum of diabetic mice.
4 Cutaneous heat stimuli were delivered to the dorsum of the right hand in 13 volunteers.
5 They made it to the dorsum of the other airship by way of metal rungs.
6 Never touch the arch of the left-foot dorsum .
7 The implantation is done via a hemicircular incision on the dorsum of the penis in the sulcus coronarius.
8 We ran close to Akromasi, or One-tree Point, upon whose flat dorsum linger the bush-grown ruins of a fort.
9 In all cases it accurately describes the major pathological conditions of the dorsum , if present, as noted on physical examination.
10 The posterior portion of the tongue dorsum seems to be an important source of odourous compounds, regardless of periodontal condition.
11 In ten of these twelve patients a significant volume reduction in the area of the nasal dorsum was found with stereophotogrammetry.
12 The operation is not difficult, and requires merely a straight incision over the dorsum , extending the whole length of the bone.
13 Skin perfusion in the dorsum of the hand was measured using LASCA, at baseline, after two-minute 12°C water immersion, and during rewarming.
14 When a babe the patient had, on the dorsum of the little finger, a small nevus, which was quiescent for many years.
15 Vitiligo in autoimmune thyroid disease was most frequently found on dorsum hands and forearms, and usually preceded the onset of thyroid disease.
16 I made two small incisions in the region of the wound upon the dorsum of the hand, and injected permanganate of potassium freely.
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