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Definition of Spine

1. Noun. The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord. "The fall broke his back"

2. Noun. Any sharply pointed projection.

3. Noun. A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.

4. Noun. The part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved. "The title and author were printed on the spine of the book"

5. Noun. A sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin.

Definition of Spine

1. n. A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

Definition of Spine

1. the vertebral column [n -S] : SPINED [adj]

Medical Definition of Spine

1. A stiff, sharp-pointed structure, formed by modification of a plant organ, for example a lateral branch or a stipule. (09 Oct 1997)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spine

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Literary usage of Spine

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1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"if a slight deformity of the spine occur with sudden paraplegia, a malignant neoplasm of the spine is probable. Tumors of the meninges and of the spinal ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"If the spine from a primary spiral does not increase in length rapidly, but increases in width, the secondary and later spirals, instead of developing ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Fracture-dislocation of the spine may be caused by direct or indirect violence, or by a combination of the two, as when ¡i person, falling from a height, ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"On a New Fish-spine from tlie Lower Old Red Sandstone of Hay, Breconshire. ... It is the largest known spine from the Lower Old Red Sandstone. ..."

5. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"Their solidity becomes very obvious, when we either examine a section of a spine whose substance is pervaded (as often happens) with a coloring matter of ..."

6. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"By the action of the one or other of the pair of muscles attached to each spine, the latter can be moved to the right or to the left of the body of the fish ..."

7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"The following verdicts for curvature of the spine have been held not to warrant disturbance by the courts upon the ground of excessiveness: —if5 ..."

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