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Spinal
- adjective - anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord
- of or relating to the spine or spinal cord; "spinal cord"; "spinal injury"
Spined
- - Furnished with spines; spiny.
Spinel
- noun - a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones
Spines
- 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
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- any sharply pointed projection
- 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"
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"
Spinet
- noun - a small and compactly built upright piano
- early model harpsichord with only one string per note
Spinny
- - A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees.
Spinto
- unknown - a type of operatic soprano
Spinus
- noun - in some classifications considered a subgenus of Carduelis: siskins and New World goldfinches
Spiral
- adjective - a continuously accelerating change in the economy
- a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
- a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"
- flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
- form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain"
- in the shape of a coil
- move in a spiral or zigzag course
- ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
- to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
Spirea
- noun - a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming
- any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers