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.
The heavy rain led to flooding on several roadways, including the 101 Freeway between Ventura and Santa Barbara. On Malibu Canyon at Pacific Coast Highway, boulders fell into the roadway in what the California Highway Patrol labeled a mud, dirt and rock slide.