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Spine or Spinal may refer to:

Contents 1 Medicine 2 Science 3 Entertainment 4 Other uses

[edit] Medicine

• Vertebral column, commonly known as the backbone, so named for its spinous processes
  • Lumbar puncture, a colloquial term for which is a spinal tap
  • Spinal anaesthesia, a type of regional anaesthetic
  • Spinal canal or spinal cavity, a tube shaped space enclosed in and protected by the bony vertebral column
  • Spinal cord, the bundle of nerve cells and nerve fibers within the vertebral column subject to spinal cord injury
  • Spinal nerves which are distal to the dorsal and ventral spinal nerve roots
  • Spine (journal), a bi-weekly peer-reviewed journal of spine surgery, published by Lippincott
  • The Spine Journal, bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal, published by Elsevier
• Processes of bones, including:
  • Ilium: anterior inferior iliac spine (AIIS), anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS), posterior inferior iliac spine, and posterior superior iliac spine
  • Ischial spine
  • Mandible: mental spine
  • Nasal bone: anterior nasal spine and posterior nasal spine
  • Spine of scapula
  • Sphenoid bone: spine of sphenoid bone (spina angularis) and ethmoidal spine

• The Spine, a set of national services used by the NHS Care Record Service (an electronic patient record system)

[edit] Science

• Dendritic spine, a specialized postsynaptic protrusion in dendrites implicated in learning and memory through synaptic plasticity
• Spine (botany), needle-like structures in plants
• SPINE (molecular biology), an acronym for Strep-Protein INteraction Experiment, a method for the detection of protein interactions
• SPINE (software), an open source Web content management system
• Spine (zoology), needle-like structures in animals
• In mathematics
  • Lebesgue spine

[edit] Entertainment

• The Spine, a 2004 They Might Be Giants album, including the songs "Spine" and "Spines"
• Spinal (Killer Instinct), a fictional character from the video game Killer Instinct
• Spinal Tap (band), a semi-fictional heavy metal band
• Spine, a demon in Blood Beast, 2007 book of the Demonata saga
• the Spine, the mountain chain which follows the west coast in the Inheritance cycle.

[edit] Other uses

• In archery, a measure of stiffness of an arrow shaft
• Spine with marrow (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language biliteral sign
• In bookbinding, the closed edge of the book along which the pages are bound

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