cervical
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How to use cervical in a sentence
Keeping all your monitors within your field of vision is a great way to reduce cervical stress and keep track of what you’re working on.
A new study out this week shows that the campaign has prevented thousands of cases of cervical cancer and precancerous conditions.
HPV vaccination in the UK has prevented thousands of cases of cervical cancer | Hannah Seo | November 4, 2021 | Popular-ScienceNow in their 20s, their rates of cervical cancer, and pre-cancerous conditions, are much lower than their unvaccinated peers.
HPV vaccination in the UK has prevented thousands of cases of cervical cancer | Hannah Seo | November 4, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHPV is the most common cause of cervical cancer and can cause other cancers, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that the vaccine be given to all 11- and 12-year-olds and everyone through age 26 who has not yet received it.
HPV vaccine study shows major geographic disparities in people receiving or completing doses to fight the cancer-causing disease | Erin Blakemore | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostAt work, Blackson, a geneticist, scrutinizes DNA to diagnose cervical cancer.
Puzzle swap celebrates jigsaw ‘barter culture’ amid pandemic chaos | Justin Wm. Moyer | December 17, 2020 | Washington Post
Much of this increase is due to human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus that is also strongly linked to cervical cancer.
While being choked during her attack, Sclove explained, her cervical spine sustained injury, which took several weeks to develop.
Thanks to the rise of oral sex, we now know that HPV doesn't just cause cervical cancer; it can also cause throat cancer.
cervical cancer has a very high survival, because most women now get regularly checked for it, so it's caught early.
The rates of cervical cancer among all Jewish women have been consistent across time.
In the following chapter the swelling of cervical glands is taken up.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine | James J. WalshThe inference drawn from this sudden inertia is inevitable: the Wasp has stabbed the cervical ganglia.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreThe sting must therefore aim at the cervical ganglia, the seat of innervation on which the rest of the organism depends.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreIn the cervical vertebræ the transverse processes represent the ribs.
Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) RussellBut the joints of the backbone in front of the sacrum receive their air from the cervical air sac.
Dragons of the Air | H. G. Seeley
British Dictionary definitions for cervical
/ (ˈsɜːvɪkəl, səˈvaɪ-) /
of or relating to the neck or cervix
Origin of cervical
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for cervical
[ sûr′vĭ-kəl ]
Relating to or involving the cervix of the uterus.
Relating to or located in or near the neck.
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