MELIORATION
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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MELIORATION, also amelioration. A process of
SEMANTIC CHANGE in which there is an improvement or ‘upward’ shift in the meaning of a word: for example,
nice has meant foolish, stupid (13–16c), lascivious, loose (14–16c), extravagant, elegant, rare, strange (15–16c), effeminate, shy, tender, slender, delicate, unimportant (16–17c), over-refined (17–18c), careful, precise, intricate, difficult, fastidious (16–19c), dainty, appetizing (18–19c), refined, cultured, discriminating (17–20c), and agreeable, pleasant (18–20c). See
PEJORATION.
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The spinal cord.
Magazine article from: Science Weekly; 10/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...What does the spinal cord do? What is its...all animals have spinal cords? Follow-up Questions: 1. Why is the spinal cord important? What...animals without spinal cords function? Level...Main Concept: The spinal cord helps the brain communicate...
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Spinal-cord cysts and tethering.(living WELL)
Magazine article from: Paraplegia News; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
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Spinal Cord Repair Research Yields Results; Two Studies on Cats Are Promising
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/22/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...along the spinal cord to nerves in the...Torre severed the spinal cords of eight anesthetized...millimeter gap in the spinal cord. The last step of...animals' spinal cords heal," Goldsmith...some regeneration of spinal cord nerves. Applying...
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Spinal Cord Repair on Rats Shows Some Promise
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 7/25/1996; 700+ words
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Spinal Cord Control of Movement: Implications for Locomotor Rehabilitation Following Spinal Cord Injury.
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RESEARCH SHOWS SPINAL CORD CAN LEARN - EVEN WHEN SEVERED
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Reports summarize spinal cord disease research from J. Miura and co-authors.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 8/5/2009; 700+ words
; ...NIH image software. Average cord distances (L value) in the...other disc levels. The spinal cords of the patients after laminoplasty...moved dorsally in the enlarged spinal canal in the neutral position...However, the degree of posterior spinal cord shifting was not correlated...
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Breakthrough Could Help Heal Spinal Cord Injuries Without Pain.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 9/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...transplanted na?ve GRP cells into adult spinal cord injuries in rats without first...transplanting them into injured spinal cords is essential," says Davies...cells for repairing the injured spinal cord, scientists and physicians...
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BREAKTHROUGH COULD HELP HEAL SPINAL CORD INJURIES WITHOUT PAIN
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; ...transplanted nave GRP cells into adult spinal cord injuries in rats without first...transplanting them into injured spinal cords is essential," says Davies...cells for repairing the injured spinal cord, scientists and physicians...
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Alexion-Yale Repair Spinal Cord Damage in Animal Model by Xenotransplantation of Transgenic Pig Neurons.
PR Newswire; 11/12/1998; 700+ words
; ...which have implications for the treatment of spinal cord injury patients. The report includes data...around damaged neurons in animals whose spinal cords were surgically severed, and that the spinal cords that had received the pig cell transplants...
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Spinal Cord Compression
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
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Spinal Cord Injury
Book article from: U*X*L Complete Health Resource
SPINAL CORD INJURY DEFINITION Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes loss of sensation (feeling) and motor (muscular) control. DESCRIPTION About ten thousand new spinal cord injuries (SPI) occur each year in the United...
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Spinal Cord
Book article from: Biology
Spinal Cord The spinal cord is a bundle of nerve fibers, no thicker than the human thumb...Prentice Hall, 2000. McDonald, John. "Repairing the Damaged Spinal Cord." Scientific American 280 (1999): 65 – 73.
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spinal cord
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
spinal cord The spinal cord extends down from the brain stem at the base of the skull , enclosed...1 coccygeal nerve. The spinal canal is longer, however, than the spinal cord, which ends in the lumbar part of the canal. Therefore the distance...
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spinal shock
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...effect of injury of the spinal cord depends on whether it is completely...and on the level of the spinal cord that is affected. For example...is provided below the vocal cords, to energize their oscillation...whose motor neurons leave the cord mainly above this level; ...
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