denoting a laboratory animal in which the spinal cord has been severed
a spinal rat
noun
3. short for spinal anaesthesia
Derived forms
spinally (ˈspinally)
adverb
spinal in American English
(ˈspaɪnəl)
adjective
1.
of or having to do with the spine or spinal cord
2.
of a spine or needle-shaped process
noun
3.
a spinal anesthetic
Derived forms
spinally (ˈspinally)
adverb
Word origin
LL spinalis
Examples of 'spinal' in a sentence
spinal
Tests showed the cats suffered inflammation in the brain and spinal cord.
The Sun (2012)
The first patients in the trial have had it injected it into their spinal fluid.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He suffered a compressed spinal fracture while lifting a partner.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Its trustees are all spinal cord injured themselves.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Four other students were in intensive care with serious head and spinal injuries and fractures.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Damage to his spinal cord left him paralysed from the waist down.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Could they have potential as a treatment for spinal cord injury?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
She had profound and multiple learning difficulties and complex health needs as a result of a spinal condition.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The royal household said that he would have scans to ascertain whether doctors needed to drain fluid from his spinal chord.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Since then he had been to France to have spinal surgery.
Marsden, Philip The Crossing-Place (1993)
She's a partially blind and deaf thalidomide victim awaiting spinal surgery.
The Sun (2013)
He couldn't walk and had spinal surgery.
The Sun (2013)
Elsewhere, a technician forgot to give pain relief to five rats undergoing spinal surgery.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I was involved in a serious accident that left me with multiple spinal fractures and other injuries.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
His parents were told to watch for a runny nose - a sign of leaking spinal fluid from the brain.
The Sun (2009)
She had fluid on her lungs removed yesterday and may have to be moved to mainland Greece for spinal surgery.
The Sun (2010)
Had the player hit the ground only slightly further up his spine, the potential for a catastrophic spinal injury would have beenhigh.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
I became an ambassador for a spinal injury charity and was invited to be on the board of governors of my former school.
The Sun (2016)
His career was over, or so it seemed, after a spinal injury two years ago.
The Sun (2010)
After crashing his car in the 1970s, he fractured his spinal cord.
John Foot Calcio: A History of Italian Football (2006)
Writing for the Magazine from hospital, she ponders the vicissitudes of life in the spinal injury unit.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
I've set up a sports memorabilia business and am about to launch a foundation to help others with spinal injury.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The proportion of mothers receiving an epidural injection or spinal anaesthetic has doubled in 20 years to around 37 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A source said: 'The pal actually suffers from a spinal condition which means he has difficulty walking.
The Sun (2007)
In other languages
spinal
British English: spinal ADJECTIVE
Spinal means relating to your spine.
...spinal fluid.
American English: spinal
Brazilian Portuguese: espinhal
Chinese: 脊柱的
European Spanish: espinal
French: céphalorachidien
German: Rückgrat-
Italian: spinale
Japanese: せき髄の
Korean: 척추의
European Portuguese: espinhal
Latin American Spanish: espinal
All related terms of 'spinal'
spinal cord
Your spinal cord is a thick cord of nerves inside your spine which connects your brain to nerves in all parts of your body.
spinal tap
a lumbar puncture , a procedure whereby a sample of spinal fluid is taken
spinal canal
the natural passage through the centre of the spinal column that contains the spinal cord
spinal column
Your spinal column is your spine .
spinal fluid
cerebrospinal fluid
spinal nerve
any of a series of paired nerves that originate in the nerve roots of the spinal cord and emerge from the vertebrae on both sides of the spinal column , each branching out to innervate a specific region of the neck , trunk , or limbs
spinal anaesthesia
anaesthesia of the lower half of the body produced by injecting an anaesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane surrounding the spinal cord
spinal anesthesia
anesthesia of the lower part of the body by the injection of an anesthetic into the spinal cord , usually in the lumbar region
spinal meningitis
inflammation that affects the membranes of the spinal cord
vertebral column
a series of contiguous or interconnecting bony or cartilaginous segments that surround and protect the spinal cord
accessory nerve
either one of the eleventh pair of cranial nerves , which supply the muscles of the head, shoulders , larynx , and pharynx and the viscera of the abdomen and thorax
lumbar puncture
insertion of a hollow needle into the lower region of the spinal cord to withdraw cerebrospinal fluid , introduce drugs, etc