spina
Americannoun
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spinae
plural
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Etymology
Origin of spina
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin spīna thorn, backbone; see spine
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Judith's son Stephen was born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus at St Monica's Maternity Home in January 1964.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Her son, who is referred to as J.M. in the complaint, is nonverbal and autistic and has spina bifida and hydrocephalus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Memoirs like Riva Lehrer’s Golem Girl, about spina bifida, and Jami Lin Nakamura’s The Night Parade, about mental illness, use monsters and monstrosity to discuss disability.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
Cases of spina bifida dropped 31% and anencephaly declined by 16% after the fortification mandate, according to a federal study cited in the journal Teratology.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024
Now it is obvious that, in a pathological point of view, aneurism, anchylosis, and scirrhus, have no affinity to each other, nor to spina binda or scrofula, which are all genera of the same order.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
Similar to the erector spinae muscles, the semispinalis muscles in this group are named for the areas of the body with which they are associated.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The erector spinae group forms the majority of the muscle mass of the back and it is the primary extensor of the vertebral column.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
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