SPINE
\spˈa͡ɪn], \spˈaɪn], \s_p_ˈaɪ_n]\
Definitions of SPINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"
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a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
By Princeton University
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the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"
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a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
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A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.
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One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
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The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.
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Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A short sharp process of bone, a spinous process. 2. The backbone, the vertebral or spinal column. 3. The bar or stay in a horse's hoof.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A spike or thorn; any thin sharp-pointed thing; the vertebral column or backbone, so called from its series of thorn-like processes; in bot., an abortive branch with a hard sharp point.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The backbone ; the vertebral column ; a sharp-pointed process or outgrowth as found on leaves, Echinoids, Porcupines ; the pointed process of a vertebra ; the scapular ridge ; a fin-ray.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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