English word spinal comes from Latin spina
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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spina | Latin (lat) | (in the plural) difficulties. A low wall along the centre of a circus (race course). A thorny tree or shrub, such as whitethorn, hawthorn, or blackthorn. Transf., thorn, spine, prickle. |
spinalis | Late Latin (LL) | |
spinal | English (eng) | (of a frog, or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact spinal cord.. Of or relating to the spine. |