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spinal column

noun

Definition of spinal column

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a column of bones supporting the trunk of a vertebrate animal a diagram of the spinal column

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Recent Examples of spinal column The effect can ripple from your knees to your hips and up your spinal column. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026 Williams then threw Azari into the arm of a couch, causing the infant to bounce and perhaps hit his head on the wall, and causing what a pathologist concluded were injuries consistent with the profound brain bleeding and spinal column fracture the physician found in an autopsy. — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Jan. 2026 He was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia in his brain and spinal column and hospitalized over the summer. — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 25 Dec. 2025 Spinal stenosis, which causes the spinal column to tighten, and kyphosis, which causes a curved spine, are two types. — Mark Gurarie, Health, 1 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for spinal column

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Her spine and hamstring were injured in the course of the chase, the district attorney’s office said.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
The second round of storms developed farther west, near the spine of the Appalachian Mountains Thursday afternoon as a cold front started to push into the Northeast from the Ohio Valley.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026

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