spinal
/spaɪ.nəl/
spinal adjective: of or relating to the spine.
Adjective
spinal (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the spine.
- spinal injury
- Of or pertaining to the spinal cord.
- (of a frog or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact surgically isolated spinal cord.
Noun
spinal (plural spinals)
- A spinal anesthesia.
spinal meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Nepali
spinal in Tamil
- முதுகுத்தண்டுச் சார்ந்த, முள்ளிய, முண்ணாணுக்குரிய, முள்ளந்தண்டுக்குரிய
spinal in Bengali
- মেরুদণ্ড সংক্রান্ত
spinal in Kannada
- ಬೆನ್ನುಮೂಳೆಯ
spinal in Nepali
- स्पाइनल
More languagesFewer languages
- spinal in Arabic
- فِقْرِيّ fiqriyy, فِقَرِيّ fiqariyy
- spinal in Indonesian
- spinal
Examples of spinal in a sentence
- Achieving a headsit requires years of practice and extensive spinal flexibility.
- Dr. Bolognese's pioneer method of spinal fusion uses condylar screws, which minimize risk to the main vertebral structure.
- If you want to grow spinal erectors that don’t make sense, you have to do a lot of bent-over compound lifts.
Forms of spinal
| plural | spinals |
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Origin of spinal
Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis (“of or belonging to the spine”), from spīna (“a prickle, spine”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, spine + -al.
Words formed from spinal
- anospinal
- anterior spinal artery syndrome
- audiospinal
- bulbospinal
- cerebellospinal
- cerebrospinal
- cervicospinal
- ciliospinal
- coeruleospinal
- corticospinal
- craniospinal
- diencephalospinal
- dorsispinal
- dorsospinal
- encephalospinal
- enterospinal
- epispinal
- extraspinal
- hemispinal
- holospinal
- hypothalamospinal
- infraspinal
- interspinal
- intraspinal
- medullospinal
- medullispinal
- meningospinal
- midspinal
- musculospinal
- neurospinal
- nonspinal
- oculospinal
- olivospinal
- opticospinal
- paraspinal
- perispinal
- postspinal
- prespinal
- propriospinal
- reticulospinal
- sacrospinal
- scapulospinal
- spinal artery
- spinal board
- spinal butterfly ray
- spinal canal
- spinal column
- spinal cord
- spinal disc herniation
- spinal fluid
- spinal ganglion
- spinalize
- spinalise
- spinally
- spinal marrow
- spinal muscular atrophy
- spinal nerve
- spinal tap
- Spinal Tap-ian
- spinospinal
Phrases with spinal
Words that rhyme with spinal
- urinal
- final
- anticlinal
- interspinal
- officinal
- synclinal
- bulbospinal
- clinal
- doctrinal
- extravaginal
- geosynclinal
- intravaginal
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- matutinal
- quarterfinal
- rhinal
- semifinal
- serotinal
- vaginal
- abdominovaginal
- affinal
- anginal
- anospinal
- anovaginal
- antevaginal
- audiospinal
- binal
- botulinal
- brachiovaginal
- carinal
- cerebellospinal
- cerebrospinal
- cervicovaginal
- ciliospinal
- circumvaginal
- clitourethrovaginal
- coeruleospinal
- colovaginal
- corticospinal
- craniospinal
- diencephalospinal
- encephalospinal
- endovaginal
- enterovaginal
- epispinal
- eugeosynclinal
- extraspinal
- hemispinal
- holospinal
- hypothalamospinal
- ileovaginal
- iliospinal
- infraspinal
- intervaginal
- intra-vaginal
- intraspinal
- ischiovaginal
- isoclinal
- mediastinal
- medullispinal
- medullospinal
Questions about spinal
- What does spinal mean?
- Spinal means of or relating to the spine.
- What is spinal in Tamil?
- Spinal in Tamil is முதுகுத்தண்டுச் சார்ந்த, முள்ளிய, முண்ணாணுக்குரிய. See Spinal meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is spinal?
- Spinal can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce spinal?
- Spinal is pronounced /spaɪ.nəl/.
Words near spinal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: spinal (page history and authors); spinal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spinal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spinal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spinal (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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