Medical Definition of Spina
1. Synonym: vertebral column. Origin: L. A thorn, the backbone, spine (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spina
Literary usage of Spina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Negotiations with spina in Paris. [isoo-i but not a Christian, he admired the
centralised Roman Catholic form of Christianity above all others ; what he ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"IN some few cases of spina bifida a suppurative inflammation of the wall of the
sac occurs, and leads to a severe and fatal inflammation of the meninges or ..."
3. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"Paralytic symptoms are most marked in this form of spina bifida. ... The frequent
association of meningocele with other forms of spina bifida and, ..."
4. Operative Surgery by John Shelton Horsley (1921)
"The different types of spina bifida may be classed as: (1) meningocele, in which
the meninges and chiefly the dura of the spinal cord constitute the ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"The spina, or raised division, which runs along the middle of the circus, ...
The spina, which was rounded at the two extremities, was decorated with metre, ..."
6. On Rest and Pain: A Course of Lectures on the Influence of Mechanical and by John Hilton, W. H. A. Jacobson (1879)
"This will enable me to express the fact that the fluid contained in the interior
of the cavity of a spina bifida is cerebro-spinal fluid. ..."
7. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene by John William Ballantyne (1904)
"Hydrocephalus, as is well known, is a frequent concomitant of spina binda ...
The association of spina bifida and hydrocephalus is well shown in Specimen No ..."
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