Crossword clues for spinal
spinal
- "This Is ___ Tap"
- ___ tap
- ___ cord
- Word with column or tap
- This Is ____ Tap
- Shot in the back?
- One kind of column
- Of a somatic column
- Of a certain column
- Like some gray matter
- Kind of tap
- Cord or column preceder
- Column leader
- Certain cord
- Back drops?
- Back column?
- "This Is ___ Tap" (1984 Rob Reiner film)
- "This Is __ Tap"
- __ cord: chiropractor's concern
- __ cord
- Vertebral structure
- Part of vital passage where island crop is transported
- Main neural pathways
- Kind of cord or column
- Kind of column or cord
- Like some injuries
- In a cord?
- ___ column
- Vertebral
- Backbone-related
- Of the backbone
- Of a body part
- Relating to backbones
- Tap type
- Type of column or cord
- Column or cord
- Relating to the backbone
- Drinks up, carrying home type of tap?
- Word before cord or column
- ____ column
- __ column
- Word with "cord" or "column"
- Type of cord
- Type of cord or column
- Certain anesthetic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spinal \Spi"nal\, a. [L. spinalis, fr. spina the spine: cf. F. spinal. See Spine.]
(Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Late Latin spinalis "of or pertaining to a thorn or the spine," from Latin spina (see spine). Spinal tap recorded from 1960.
Wiktionary
a. of or relating to the spine
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the spine or spinal cord; "spinal cord"; "spinal injury"
n. anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord [syn: spinal anesthesia, spinal anaesthesia]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "spinal".
The muscles in his throat and the strengthened bone of his spinal column prevented Cati from actually snapping his neck, but there was littlie he could do to stop the closure of his windpipe.
The medulla oblongata is traversed by a longitudinal fissure, continuous with that of the spinal cord.
Those of the spinal cord and medulla oblongata are performed without any consciousness or sensation on the part of the subject.
In the posterior chamber of the skull is the cerebellum, anterior to, and below which, is the medulla oblongata, connecting with the spinal cord and sympathetic system.
Its cerebral area includes the posterior and inferior portions of the cerebrum, the entire cerebellum, and that part of the medulla which connects with the spinal cord, all of which sustain intimate relations to vital conditions.
This condition extended through both the larger and the smaller brain, cerebrum, and cerebellum, but was not so marked in the medulla, or commencing portion of the spinal cord, as in the other portions.
IDA : This is a column of sensory and motory nerves on the left side of the spinal cord.
She resumed working on the chemical structure of the neurotrophic growth factor for spinal cord regeneration.
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Luke was a paraplegic, not because of any accident to his spine, but because his spinal nerves were dying of old age.
The impoverished condition of the blood, which led to serous effusions within the ventricles of the brain, and around the brain and spinal cord, and into the pericardial and abdominal cavities, was gradually induced by the action of several causes, but chiefly by the character of the food.
Club-feet, spinal curvature, and other deformities resulting from paralysis, have been successfully treated in our Institution.
These cells receive input from the spinal cord reticular formation, a neuronal network that receives inputs from the entire somato-sensory system.
The ascending tracts collect the various sensations picked up by the spinal cord and carry them upward, through the reticular activating system.
Spigelia Marilandica 314 Spinal Column 24 Spinal Cord 25, 90 Spinal Cord, Reflex Action of the 93 Spinal Curvature, Posterior 898 Spinal Nerves 89 Spirit Vapor-bath 362 Spirometer 391, 392 Spleen 44 Sponge Bath 365 Sprains 892 Squaw-root 305 Stapes 110 Static Electrical Machine 629 Sterility 707 Sternum 23 Stethoscope 391 Stimulants 348 Stomach 39, 52 Stomach, Inflammation of the 882, 884 Stomach, Neuralgia of the 885 Stomatitis 553 Stomatitis Materna 554 Stone in the Bladder 838 Stone-pock 442 Stone-root 337 Story of Sexual Abuse 394 Stramonium 344 Striae 31 Stricture of the Urethra 775, 843 Strumous Diathesis 445 Strumous Synovius 453 St.