vertebrae
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For his part, the unnamed 17-year-old said in a since-deleted social media post that he suffered six fractured vertebrae and a badly bruised tailbone and needed nine stitches in his foot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Their vertebrae fused, while mineral deposits caused the tissue between the bones to become abnormally hard.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
The scans revealed features of the skull, vertebrae, and brain endocast that would have been difficult to study from the exposed bones alone.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
FARGO, N.D.—Oak Reile was delivering a pallet of washer fluid, cigarettes and candy to a local convenience store in 2020 when he slipped and fell, breaking two vertebrae and paralyzing him from the armpits down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
He hung in the midst of a sea of bones, with the blue sky visible through a fretwork of ribs and vertebrae.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
