English Explanatory Dictionary

spinal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to the spine.
  2. Of or pertaining to the spinal cord.
  3. (of a frog or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact surgically isolated spinal cord.
noun
  1. A spinal anesthesia.

Pronunciation

/spaɪ.nəl/ /spaɪ.nl̩/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spinal.wav

Word forms

spinal spinals

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis (“of or belonging to the spine”), from spīna (“a prickle, spine”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, spine + -al.

Derived words

anospinal anterior spinal artery syndrome audiospinal bulbospinal cerebellospinal cerebrospinal cervicospinal ciliospinal coeruleospinal corticospinal craniospinal diencephalospinal dorsispinal dorsospinal encephalospinal enterospinal epispinal extraspinal hemispinal holospinal hypothalamospinal infraspinal interspinal intraspinal medullospinal medullispinal meningospinal midspinal musculospinal neurospinal nonspinal oculospinal olivospinal opticospinal paraspinal perispinal postspinal prespinal propriospinal reticulospinal sacrospinal scapulospinal spinal artery spinal board spinal butterfly ray spinal canal spinal column spinal cord spinal disc herniation spinal fluid spinal ganglion spinalize spinalise spinally spinal marrow spinal muscular atrophy spinal nerve spinal tap Spinal Tap-ian spinospinal

Translations

Arabic: فِقْرِيّ Arabic: فِقَرِيّ Armenian: ողնաշարի Armenian: ողնաշարային Belarusian: спінны́ Belarusian: хрыбе́тны Belarusian: пазвано́чны Bulgarian: гръбна́чен Chinese Mandarin: 脊的 Czech: páteřní Czech: spinální Esperanto: spina Finnish: spinaalinen Finnish: selkäydin- French: spinal German: Rückgrat- German: spinal Greek: νωτιαίος Hungarian: gerinc- Indonesian: spinal Italian: spinale Macedonian: грбначен Polish: kręgowy Portuguese: espinal Portuguese: espinhal Portuguese: vertebral Romanian: spinal Russian: спинно́й Russian: хребе́тный Russian: позвоно́чный Serbo-Croatian: кѝчменӣ Serbo-Croatian: kìčmenī Slovak: chrbticový Slovak: chrbtový Slovak: spinálny Slovene: hrbteničen Spanish: espinal Spanish: vertebral Ukrainian: хребе́тний
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