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SPINAL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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; spinal anaesthesia; spinal anesthesia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("spinal" is a kind of...):

regional anaesthesia; regional anesthesia (loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the pelvic region during childbirth))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spinal"):

saddle block anaesthesia; saddle block anesthesia (the parts of a patient's body that would touch a saddle if the patient were sitting in one are anesthetized by injecting a local anesthetic into the spinal cord)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the spine or spinal cord

Example:

spinal injury

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

spine (the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord)

Derivation:

spine (a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin)

spine (the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord)

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 Context examples: 

The latter covers and protects the brain and the spinal cord.

(Meningeal Layer of the Dura Mater, NCI Thesaurus)

Meningitis causes swelling in the brain and spinal cord and can kill within hours.

(Experts Link Fatal Mystery Illness in Liberia to Meningitis Bacteria, VOA)

The researchers first converted the stem cells into newborn spinal cord neurons or epithelial cells that line walls of brain blood vessels.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

It moves cerebrospinal fluid, a clear liquid surrounding the brain and spinal cord, quickly and deeply thoughout the brain, removing waste.

(Lymphatic Vessels Discovered in Central Nervous System, NIH)

A similar response was found in spinal cord and thalamic DMG models developed from cells grown in culture from patient cells.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

Intracranial or spinal cavities containing a cerebrospinal-like fluid, the wall of which is composed of arachnoidal cells.

(Arachnoid Cyst, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An intracranial or spinal cyst which contains fluid and is composed of arachnoid cells.

(Arachnoid Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)

MRIs are very useful for examining the brain and spinal cord.

(MRI Scans, NIH)

Multiple meningiomas that arises from the spinal meninges.

(Multiple Intraspinal Meningiomas, NCI Thesaurus)

This may be from a primary spinal cancer, or from a cancer at a distant site.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Spine, NCI Thesaurus)