# spinal
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /spaɪ.nəl/, /spaɪ.nl̩/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪnəl

### Adjective

spinal (not comparable)
* (anatomy, zootomy) Of or relating to the spine.
** Of or pertaining to the spinal cord.
** (zoology) (of a frog or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact surgically isolated spinal cord.

#### Hypernyms

* neuraxial

#### Coordinate terms

* spondylo-
* vertebro-

#### Derived terms

* anospinal
* audiospinal
* bulbospinal
* cerebellospinal
* cerebrospinal
* ciliospinal
* coeruleospinal
* corticospinal
* craniospinal
* diencephalospinal
* encephalospinal
* epispinal
* extraspinal
* hemispinal
* holospinal
* hypothalamospinal
* infraspinal
* interspinal
* intraspinal
* medullospinal, medullispinal
* midspinal
* musculospinal
* neurospinal
* nonspinal
* olivospinal
* opticospinal
* paraspinal
* perispinal
* postspinal
* prespinal
* propriospinal
* reticulospinal
* sacrospinal
* 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
* subspinal
* supraspinal
* tectospinal
* thoracospinal
* transspinal
* trigeminospinal
* vestibulospinal

#### Translations
### Noun

spinal (plural spinals)
* (medicine, colloquial) A spinal anesthesia.

### References

* “spinal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “spinal”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* -splain, Aplins, Lipans, Pinals, Plains, lapins, plains, splain

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis, from Latin spīna.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

spinal (feminine spinale, masculine plural spinaux, feminine plural spinales)
* (anatomy) spinal

### Further reading

* “spinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis, from Latin spīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃpiˈnaːl/, /spiˈnaːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːl

### Adjective

spinal (strong nominative masculine singular spinaler, not comparable)
* spinal

#### Declension
## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch spinaal (“spinal”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈspinal/ [ˈspi.nal]
* Rhymes: -inal
* Syllabification: spi‧nal

### Adjective

spinal
* (anatomy) spinal

#### Derived terms

* anestesia spinal

#### Related terms

* spina

### Further reading

* “spinal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Interlingua
### Adjective

spinal (not comparable)
* spinal

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French spinal, Late Latin spīnālis, from Latin spīna. Doublet of the inherited spinare.

### Adjective

spinal m or n (feminine singular spinală, masculine plural spinali, feminine and neuter plural spinale)
* spinal