spinal
IPA: spˈaɪnʌɫ
noun
- (medicine, colloquial) A spinal anesthesia.
adjective
- (anatomy, zootomy) Of or relating to the spine.
- Of or pertaining to the spinal cord.
- (zoology) (of a frog or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact surgically isolated spinal cord.
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Examples of "spinal" in Sentences
- The activity of the spinal cord is similarly depressed.
- The tip of the spinal needle has a point or small bevel.
- Botched suicide attempted resulted in spinal cord injury.
- Spinal manipulation is related to the subject of the article.
- During spinal shock, the bladder is flaccid and unresponsive.
- Poliovirus can affect the spinal cord and cause poliomyelitis.
- It may lead to the compression of the spinal cord and myelopathy.
- The posterolateral spinal tracts are involved with pernicious anemia.
- Rise in blood pressure Increased excitability in some spinal reflexes.
- He suffered a contusion of the spinal cord, a career threatening injury.
- Myelomalacia is a pathological term referring the softening of the spinal cord.
- Immediately after a spinal cord injury the paralyzed parts are in spinal shock, and are loose or floppy.
- But as part of the first generation of people living with long-term spinal-cord injuries, Brown is a pioneer.
- Corresponding to the skull and the spinal column is a central nervous axis, made up of two parts, the _brain_ and the _spinal cord_.
- Kerr looks thoughtful for a moment before telling me about newborn infants he works with who suffer from what is known as spinal muscular atrophy.
- It is a controversial treatment that has not been established as a standard of care in spinal cord injuries and is the subject of considerable debate in the field.
- This means they are designed to hold the spine in one position, or what we call spinal neutral, while the larger, more powerful muscles of the hip and legs are designed to perform the actual lifting, pulling, etc.
- The spinal cord, though it is between one-half and three-fourths of an inch across, or about the size of an ordinary blackboard pointer, has little or none of this fibrous tissue in it, and is very soft and delicate, easily torn when its bony case is broken; hence its old name, the _spinal marrow_, from its apparent resemblance to the marrow, or soft fat, in the hollow of a bone.