Spine or spinal may refer to:
Science
Biology
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Spinal column, also known as the backbone
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Dendritic spine, a small membranous protrusion from a neuron's dendrite
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Thorns, spines, and prickles, needle-like structures in plants
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Spine (zoology), needle-like structures in animals
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SPINE (molecular biology) (strep–protein interaction experiment), a method for the detection of protein interactions
Medicine
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Spinal anaesthesia or "a spinal", an injection generally through a fine needle, usually long
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The Spine, a set of national service within the UK NHS Connecting for Health
Arts, entertainment and media
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The Spine (album), a 2004 They Might Be Giants album, including the songs "Spine" and "Spines"
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Spine (film), American film
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The Spine (film), a 2009 animated short by Chris Landreth
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Spine (video game), an upcoming video game
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The Spine, a novel by Ladislav BublĂk
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Spinal Column (sculpture), a 1968 sculpture by Alexander Calder
Fictional entities
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Spinal ( Killer Instinct), a fictional character from the video game Killer Instinct
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Spine, a demon in Blood Beast (2007) book of the Demonata saga
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The Spine, the fictional mountain chain which follows the west coast in The Inheritance Cycle
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The Spine, a singing automaton in the band Steam Powered Giraffe, portrayed by David Michael Bennett
Periodicals
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Spine (journal), a bi-weekly peer-reviewed journal of spine surgery, publish by Lippincott
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The Spine Journal, bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal, published by Elsevier
Other uses
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Spine (bookbinding), the closed edge of a book along which the pages are bound
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Spine, a measure of stiffness of an arrow shaft in archery
See also
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Anterior inferior iliac spine (AIIS), anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS), posterior inferior iliac spine, and posterior superior iliac spine
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Ischial spine, part of the posterior border of the body of the ischium bone of the pelvis
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Mental spine, on the mandible
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Anterior nasal spine, a bony projection in the skull
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Posterior nasal spine, for the attachment of the musculus uvulae
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Spine of scapula, a prominent plate of bone
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Spine of sphenoid bone (spina angulari) and ethmoidal spine