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Meanings of spinal marrow in English

A thick, whitish cord of nerve tissue which is a major part of the vertebrate central nervous system.

Usage of spinal marrow in English
1
There was evidently a canal in the centre of the spinal marrow.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 / Zoo...
2
From the brain runs the spinal marrow through the spine or backbone.
American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; / Bei...
3
The ball had penetrated the spinal marrow and death had been instantaneous.
The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
4
Well, there's the spinal marrow where you found it just now.
Hard Cash
5
Plato, that it is the deflux of the spinal marrow.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
6
The Dox say y' act direct on the spinal marrow.
Hard Cash
7
Jerry heard the tremendous sounds for the first time, and quaked in his spinal marrow.
The Settler and the Savage
8
He leads him down the long line of the Rhine, the spinal marrow of Mediaeval Europe.
Through the Magic Door
9
I divided the spinal marrow of a very lively snake between the second and third vertebrae.
A History of Science — Volume 4
10
The bullet had severed the spinal marrow, passing through the vertebræ and away on the other side.
A Tale of Three Lions
11
The white part of the brain and spinal marrow consists solely of conducting tubes to transmit this influence.
American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; / Bei...
12
The Spinal Cord, or spinal marrow, fills the spinal canal in the vertebral column, or "backbone."
The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath
13
Mills and O'Hara, both of Philadelphia, have recorded instances of recovery after penetrating wound of the spinal marrow.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
14
Eventually, they thought the best thing they could do was to apply a steel magnet to his spinal marrow.
Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
15
The conducting nerves between the brain and the spinal marrow have been overworked: too much activity, too constant a strain.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
16
It is the central nervous system, and contains within itself the elements of the brain and spinal marrow of higher forms.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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