spinal

adjective

Of, relating to, or situated near the spine or spinal cord; vertebral.

adjective

Resembling a spine or spinous part.

noun

An anesthetic injected into the spinal cord to induce partial or complete anesthesia.

In anatomy:

Of or pertaining to the backbone, spine, or spinal column; rachidian; vertebral: as, spinal arteries, bones, muscles, nerves; spinal curvature; a spinal complaint.

Pertaining to a spine or spinous process of bone; spinous; as, the spinal point (the base of the nasal spine, or subnasal point): specificallyused in craniometry.

adjective

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.

adjective

Of or pertaining to a spine or spines.

adjective

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.

adjective

the backbone, or connected series or vertebræ which forms the axis of the vertebrate skeleton; the spine; rachis; vertebral column.