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extraspinal

extraspinal adjective: outside of the spine.

Adjective

extraspinal (not comparable)

  1. Outside of the spine.
    • There is an intradural extra-medullary mass with an extraspinal component at C7-D2 level causing cord compression and there is a paraspinal component at this level which shows some degree of enhancement.2015 July 8, Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Priyantha Udaya Kumara Ralapanawa et al., “Spinal intradural metastasis from scapular Ewing sarcoma”, in BMC Research Notes, volume 8, →DOI

Origin of extraspinal

From extra- + spinal.

Words that rhyme with extraspinal

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Questions about extraspinal

What does extraspinal mean?
Extraspinal means outside of the spine.
What part of speech is extraspinal?
Extraspinal is an adjective.

Words near extraspinal in the dictionary

  1. extraspections
  2. extraspective
  3. extraspectral
  4. extraspects
  5. extraspherical
  6. extraspinal
  7. extrasplanchnic
  8. extraspliceosomal
  9. extrasporogonic
  10. extrastaminal
  11. extrastapedial

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