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Axons and cell bodies in the dorsa spinal cord convey mostly sensory information from the body to the brain.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Fit aliquando, vt nautæ in dorsa cetorum, quæ Insulas esse putant, anchoras figentes. sæpe periclitentur, vocantur autem eorum lingua Trollwal, Tuffelwalen. i.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 by Hakluyt, Richard

For example, Robert Hesyl, a country rector, bequeathed the sum of 6s. 8d. "ad intitulandum nomina librorum in libraria collegii Lincoln: contentorum, supra dorsa eorum cooperienda cornu et clavis."

From Old English Libraries by Savage, Ernest Albert

Under this Rule, some nouns suffer a syncope; as, dorus m. a door, n. p. dorsa for dorusa.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander

Looking eastward the land smoothens, the dorsa fall more gently towards the counter-slope, and there are none of the "Morros" which we have traversed.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir