cell body. noun. Medical Definition of cell body. : the nucleus-containing central part of a neuron exclusive of its axons and dendrites that is the major structural element of the gray matter of the brain and spinal cord, the ganglia, and the retinaâcalled also perikaryon, soma.
Sometimes a bridge collapses for glaringly obvious reasons â being whacked by a barge, for example. That's what knocked down Florida's Sunshine Skyway bridge in 1980, killing 35 people, and the I-40 bridge near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, in 2002, killing 14, and a causeway in Louisiana in 1964, killing 14.
from a 05.09.99 article: Corporal Gary Schluter of the Florida State Highway Patrol - who has seen the number of suicides, and attempts, climb steadily over the last few years at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, as well as persuaded multiple would-be suicides at that site to live - advises: People look at that water and think it's very serene, an easy way to die.