as in spine
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 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spinal column
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Many are exquisitely engineered with complex mechanisms that bring fluidity and motion to the spine of the jewel, including earrings and necklaces that move with the body.—
Kate Matthams,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Fast Company said that lesions on his spine that left him ill and caused problems with walking.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
8 July 2025
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Although many of its bones were unearthed from the Morrison Formation in Colorado in 2021-2022, its skull and parts of its vertebral column were missing, leaving scientists unsure of its precise length.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
25 June 2025
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The Chicago fossil possesses the only vertebral column of an Archaeopteryx, which includes two tiny vertebrae at the tip of the tail, showing there were a total of 24 vertebrae, one more than previously thought.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2025
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“Spinal column.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spinal%20column. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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