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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spinal column
noun
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▪ At intervals along its length groups of nerve fibres emerge from the spinal column to connect with the peripheral nervous system.
▪ Chiropractic Practitioners deal with the structural relationships between the nerve tissues and the spinal column.
▪ The central rod is known as the Sushumna and corresponds to the spinal column.
▪ The pinioned hands of the condemned man went suddenly white as the noose and the drop snapped his spinal column.
▪ These are connected vertically to the idol along the spinal column, over the chakras and end at the head.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spinal column

Spinal \Spi"nal\, a. [L. spinalis, fr. spina the spine: cf. F. spinal. See Spine.]

  1. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.

  2. Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.

    Spinal accessory nerves, the eleventh pair of cranial nerves in the higher vertebrates. They originate from the spinal cord and pass forward into the skull, from which they emerge in company with the pneumogastrics.

    Spinal column, the backbone, or connected series or vertebr[ae] which forms the axis of the vertebrate skeleton; the spine; rachis; vertebral column.

    Spinal cord, the great nervous cord extending backward from the brain along the dorsal side of the spinal column of a vertebrate animal, and usually terminating in a threadlike appendage called the filum terminale; the spinal, or vertebral, marrow; the myelon. The nervous tissue consists of nerve fibers and nerve cells, the latter being confined to the so-called gray matter of the central portions of the cord, while the peripheral white matter is composed of nerve fibers only. The center of the cord is traversed by a slender canal connecting with the ventricles of the brain.

Wiktionary
spinal column

n. (context anatomy English) The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that extends from the cranium to the coccyx, which encloses and protects the spinal cord.

WordNet
spinal column

n. the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn: vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis]