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spinal

  • adjective
  • /spaɪ.nəl/

Of or relating to the spine.

Other meanings

  1. Of or pertaining to the spinal cord.

  2. of a frog or other experimental animal Having a pithed brain, but an intact surgically isolated spinal cord.

Related words

  • cervicospinal
  • dorsispinal
  • dorsospinal
  • enterospinal
  • meningospinal
  • oculospinal
  • scapulospinal
  • vesicospinal
  • spinal board
  • spinal butterfly ray
  • spinal canal
  • spinal column

Word history

From Latin "spīnālis" (of or belonging to the spine).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “spinal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.