The legs are longer and more slender, with the metatarsus of the second pair curved inward, and a long forked spineon the inside of the tibia of the same legs.
The coxae of the second legs have a conical spinenear the base.
Somehow or other I have managed to mislay my spine this morning.
Many of the tender spines which cause great solicitude on the part of parents and physicians, who fear that disease of the spine is threatening the life of a loved daughter, not infrequently originate in this way.
This is an application to be made to the lower part of the spine for the purpose of allaying the excessive heat and irritation which often exist there.
Whenever a child seats himself, the head and shoulders droop forward, giving to the spine a curved appearance.
The thousands of ladies who are suffering with spinal irritation, organic disease of the spine and other nervous disorders, are witnesses to this fact.
The little chills run up and down my spine when'er we meet, Though she seems a gentle creature and she's very trim and neat.
While I waited in an agony of suspense and agitation for their next movement little currents of icy sensation ran up and down my spine and my heart seemed alternately to stop beating and then start off again with terrifying rapidity.
He felt as if his spine had suddenly become hollow and someone had filled it with particles of ice.
Then break my spineand scatter it in small pieces near the edge of the woods, and return to visit the place, after one moon.
You must then separate me into parts, pulling off my body from the spine upon which I grow.
Given a beast with an India-rubber spine and no sense of honor, I felt I would be helpless.
He got upon his feet with difficulty, and found that his spine had been hurt.
Becoming thirsty, and observing a pool of water at a short distance, I attempted to rise, but my spine pained me so much that I was obliged to lie down again, without being able to reach the desired spot.
During life the spine was seated on the wart, not united to it, but moving upon it in all directions, with perfect smoothness and freedom; a ball and socket joint, in fact.
At the bottom of each spine there is a cavity exactly fitting this second wart, and equally highly-polished in its interior.
In the first it may be compared with a prawn, having a lengthened slender body, whose fore part is protected by a prawn-like transparent carapace, with an immensely long straight spine in front, and two hooked ones behind.
Mediterranean, to be identified by its lacking a second spine behind each angular one, which is well marked in our species.
If the abdomen is now held back and the gluteal muscles raised, the beautiful curves of the spine will be restored, the shoulders will be straightened, and the internal organs will have a chance to resume their natural position.
It cannot be recommended to those who have a tendency to lateral curvature of the spine or weak back, or prolapsed internal organs.
Now bring your chest up to touch the door, and throw the lower part of the spine backward so that there will be a space between the abdomen and the door.
If the girl sits at school with one elbow on the desk, the head will be turned to the opposite side and the spine will be inclined from the perpendicular, and a lateral curvature be likely to result.
It is gathered into a space of about six inches in length, and is fastened up and down the spine in the region of the small of the back.
I bowed once more, turned, and went out of the room with that sensation of awkwardness in my spine which a very young man feels when he knows he is being looked at from behind.
He was carrying a plate containing the spine of a herring that had been gnawed at; and shutting the door that led into the room with his foot, he jerked out, 'What do you want?
Barrett Browning states that the injury to the spine was not discovered for some time, but was afterwards attributed, not to a fall, but to a strain whilst tightening her pony's girths.
Conan was so much stronger than the Irakzai that in ordinary circumstances he could have broken his spine between his hands.
His spine cracked in three places like a rotten branch and he was hurled headlong against the Cimmerian, bearing him backward so that they both crashed to the beaten floor.
He laughed softly, and chills crawled up and down her spine again.
I expected a corresponding formation upon the opposite eastern versant: we found only a huge crest, a spine of black plutonic rock, intensely ugly and repulsive.
Illness may also result from small stones, or the spineof the nopal placed in the body by the same agency.
It is not necessary to pay any attention to the shoulders, if the spine is kept in proper position, for the shoulders will then fall into the right place.
All should take enough exercise to keep the spine straight and pliable.
The side saddle position keeps the spine twisted so that it takes away much of the benefit to be derived from riding.
It is necessary to arch the body, making the spine concave posteriorly, and bending the neck well backward at first.
But his spine was as stiff as ever as he left the closet, and he was even smiling to give the impression that the news from the capital was favorable.
One man's rifle shot up as his spine was broken by a jagged piece of shrapnel jacket.
Clenching his hands in a rocking effort, he was able to stiffen his spine once more as he took down the receiver.
It is an interesting fact that the spine is the central and fundamental structure of all the higher organisms on this earth.
The curves in the human spine are characteristic, illustrating in another way the modification of the vertebral column that has been made necessary by the erect position.
But all vertebrata have the great nerve trunk at the back, contained in the spine and with a bulb on the front or upper end constituting the brain.
In some of the lower animals the spine is nearly straight, while in some cases it virtually forms a complete arch from one end to the other.
This strength is necessary not only because the spine is what may be termed the foundation for our entire physical structure but also because therein are located the nerves that radiate to each organ and every minute part of the body.
For one thing the spine became less flexible and gained in stability, especially in the lower sections.
Therefore, the necessity for a strong spine is readily apparent.
This development of the back of the neck always indicates great vitality, because definite proof is thereby given that the spine is unusually strong and is maintained in a position favorable to the functioning of all the organs of the body.
Since the spine gave way, there is no position in which I can lie or sit so as to use a pen without distress.
Even writing this letter has made the spine ache almost past endurance.
In September, 1885, my spine seemed suddenly to snap.
She never complained when the bad symptoms came on; and never voluntarily admitted, even on being questioned, that the spine was more painful to her than usual.
The doctor was suspiciously careful not to commit himself: he said that he hoped the spine was no longer in danger of being affected; but that he could not conscientiously express himself as feeling quite sure about it.
