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.
A fatal accident shut down the southbound lanes of the Skyway Bridge for several hours this morning, the Florida Highway Patrol reports. According to reports, at 3:43 a.m., a 2005 Ford sedan traveling north in the southbound lanes of the Skyway Bridge collided nearly head-on with a 2000 GMC pickup near the 8 mile post. The female driver of the Ford sustained fatal injuries and died at the scene of the crash.