spinal column
noun
: the axial skeleton of a vertebrate that consists of an articulated series of vertebrae which extend from the neck to the tail and protect the spinal cord
called also backbone, vertebral column
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a diagram of the spinal column
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The team concluded that based on the spinal column, the combination of a great white build with the megalodon's much longer length would have simply proved too cumbersome.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2025
Symptoms usually begin as headache, nausea, vomiting and fever, but then can spread to neurological symptoms after the parasite leaves the bloodstream, enters muscle, migrates to peripheral nerves and into the spinal column and brain, doctors said.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
Since moving around on land did not require a stiff spinal column, early terrestrial vertebrates evolved flexibility just behind the head, enabling them to widely scan the environment and to direct their mouths toward prey without moving their whole bodies.
—Kent Dunlap, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
Their work, published in Science Robotics, introduces a novel control approach that combines the natural coordination patterns of our fingers with the decoding of motoneuron activity in the spinal column.
—Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2025
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2025
Symptoms usually begin as headache, nausea, vomiting and fever, but then can spread to neurological symptoms after the parasite leaves the bloodstream, enters muscle, migrates to peripheral nerves and into the spinal column and brain, doctors said.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
Since moving around on land did not require a stiff spinal column, early terrestrial vertebrates evolved flexibility just behind the head, enabling them to widely scan the environment and to direct their mouths toward prey without moving their whole bodies.
—Kent Dunlap, The Conversation, 10 Feb. 2025
Their work, published in Science Robotics, introduces a novel control approach that combines the natural coordination patterns of our fingers with the decoding of motoneuron activity in the spinal column.
—Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for spinal column
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“Spinal column.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spinal%20column. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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