Vertebra

Disk herniation is when cartilage, called 'intervertebral disk' and found between each vertebra, slips out.

Sami fractured a vertebra and lost consciousness.

A giraffe neck vertebra can be five inches long.

Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.