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protovertebra (medicine)


protovertebra


Origin: Proto- + vertebra.

<anatomy> One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite.

The protovertebrae were long regarded as rudiments of the permanent vertebrae, but they are now known to give rise to the dorsal muscles and Other structures as well as the vertebral column. See Myotome.

Source: Websters Dictionary


King, B.B. (sh)




orig. Riley B. King

born Sept. 16, 1925, Itta Bena, near Indianola, Miss., U.S.

U.S. blues guitarist.

Reared in the Mississippi Delta, he was influenced early by gospel Music. He worked for a time as a disc jockey in Memphis, where he acquired the nickname B.B. (for Blues Boy). His first hit, "Three O'Clock Blues" (1951), was followed by a long succession of others, including "Every Day I Have the Blues" and "The Thrill Is Gone." To his own impassioned vocal calls, King played single-string guitar responses with a distinctive vibrato, in a style influenced by Delta blues guitarists and jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. By the late 1960s rock guitarists were acknowledging his influence and introducing King and his guitar, Lucille, to the white public. He remains the most successful bluesman of all time.


B.B. King, 1972

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