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adj
Of or relating to the spine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: anatomy, biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences, zoology, zootomy
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of or relating to the spine.
Of or pertaining to the spinal cord.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: anatomy, biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences, zoology, zootomy
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of or relating to the spine.
(of a frog or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact surgically isolated spinal cord.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: anatomy, biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences, zoology, zootomy
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A spinal anesthesia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adjective
of or relating to the spine or spinal cord
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: spinal anesthesia, spinal anaesthesia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: regional anesthesia, regional anaesthesia
Narrower terms: saddle block anesthesia, saddle block anaesthesia
History
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.
Across languages
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
