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(key): /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
Coordinate terms
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
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis, from Latin spīna.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Adjective
spinal (feminine spinale, masculine plural spinaux, feminine plural spinales)
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(key): /ʃpiˈnaːl/, /spiˈnaːl/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -aːl
Adjective
spinal (strong nominative masculine singular spinaler, not comparable)
Declension
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist spinal | sie ist spinal | es ist spinal | sie sind spinal | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | spinaler | spinale | spinales | spinale |
genitive | spinalen | spinaler | spinalen | spinaler | |
dative | spinalem | spinaler | spinalem | spinalen | |
accusative | spinalen | spinale | spinales | spinale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der spinale | die spinale | das spinale | die spinalen |
genitive | des spinalen | der spinalen | des spinalen | der spinalen | |
dative | dem spinalen | der spinalen | dem spinalen | den spinalen | |
accusative | den spinalen | die spinale | das spinale | die spinalen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein spinaler | eine spinale | ein spinales | (keine) spinalen |
genitive | eines spinalen | einer spinalen | eines spinalen | (keiner) spinalen | |
dative | einem spinalen | einer spinalen | einem spinalen | (keinen) spinalen | |
accusative | einen spinalen | eine spinale | ein spinales | (keine) spinalen |
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch spinaal (“spinal”), from Late Latin spīnālis (“of or belonging to the spine”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈspinal/ [ˈspi.nal]
- Rhymes: -inal
- Syllabification: spi‧nal
Adjective
spinal (comparative lebih spinal, superlative paling spinal)
Derived terms
Related terms
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)
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)
Declension
singular | plural | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative- accusative |
indefinite | spinal | spinală | spinali | spinale | |||
definite | spinalul | spinala | spinalii | spinalele | ||||
genitive- dative |
indefinite | spinal | spinale | spinali | spinale | |||
definite | spinalului | spinalei | spinalilor | spinalelor |