pertaining to or affecting the brain and the spinal cord
2.
of or pertaining to the central nervous system
Word origin
[1820–30; cerebro- + spinal]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: analogue, exogenous, insider, morphology, takeoff
Examples of 'cerebrospinal' in a sentence
cerebrospinal
The next morning, the scientists analysed the volunteers' cerebrospinal fluid for proteins.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
An analysis of cerebrospinal fluid samples was 90 per cent accurate at distinguishing the two groups of patients.