Like a heart attack or a stroke or a broken spine.

I see myself as a person with a broken spine lying in the wreckage after a plane crash.

A crashing fall later that year resulted in injuries including a broken spine.

I surmised they had concluded it would be easier to reach my broken spine that way.

He even operated on a patient with a broken spine.

The boy kicked in the snow like a rabbit with a broken spine.

I bought it for £3.00 - a bargain, in spite of its ragged cover and broken spine.

He was helicoptered away from circuit with a broken spine.

When he finally saw a doctor, the diagnosis was terminal cancer and a broken spine.

A 52-year-old woman with a broken spine was flown to Moscow for treatment.