spinal — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the spine.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Examples

   spinal injury

2. Of or relating to the spine. Of or pertaining to the spinal cord.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

3. Of or relating to the spine. (of a frog or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact surgically isolated spinal cord.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

Noun

1. A spinal anesthesia.

   Usage

   • Colloquial

Adjective

1. of or relating to the spine or spinal cord

   Examples

   spinal cord

   spinal injury

Noun

1. anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord

   Synonyms

   spinal anesthesiaspinal anaesthesia

   Broader terms

   regional anesthesiaregional anaesthesia