Spinal
['spaɪn(ə)l] or ['spaɪnl]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to the spine or spinal cord; 'spinal cord'; 'spinal injury' .
Edited by Claudette--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.
Inputed by Liza
Definition
adj. pertaining to the spine or backbone.—n. Spī′na a spine the backbone: one of the quills of a spinet: a barrier dividing the Roman hippodrome longitudinally.—adj. Spin′āte covered with spines or spine-like processes.—Spinal column the backbone; Spinal cord marrow the main neural axis of every vertebrate.
Checker: Polly
Examples
- If these efforts fail the bull is finally lassoed, held fast and killed by driving a knife blade into the spinal column just back of the horns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was bitten too near the top of the spinal column, and came too late! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edwards, that with the English race-horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- By the aid of the Roentgen Rays, it locates a bullet in a wounded soldier, and takes a picture of one’s spinal column. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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