Denise Austin

Your lower back contains numerous muscles. One group, called the erector spinae, attaches to your spinal column at different points along your back, allowing you to bend it forward and backward and from side to side. Toning these muscles helps prevent back pain, and it also tightens and firms your entire lower back.

American Author

Bill Maris

As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.

American Businessman

Ann Veneman

I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.

American Public Servant

Wavy Gravy

I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

American Activist

Victoria Arlen

When you have a spinal or brain injury, or any kind of devastating illness, you kind of fall through the cracks in a sense. Your world implodes, and no one is really there to help pick up the pieces.

American Journalist

Gary Lineker

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

English Footballer

Curtis Mayfield

With a spinal cord injury, which most people don't really know about... there are many, many complications that actually lead you through your life, and sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down.

American Musician

Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

German Physicist

Tyson Kidd

You don't have to sever your spinal cord to be paralyzed for life. You could just touch it and be paralyzed for life.

Canadian Wrestler

Jennifer Grey

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

American Actress

Predominantly used in medical or anatomical discussions about the backbone and related structures.

Medical Context

'Spinal' refers specifically to the spine, not to be confused with general back problems.

Not Interchangeable

Other related terms include 'spinal cord', 'spinal column', and 'spinal nerve'.

Spinal Variants

'Spinal' can be used metaphorically to describe something that is central or core to a structure.

Metaphorical Use

Describes objects physically arranged like a spine, with a central support and other parts branching off.

Structural Similarity

May be used in design, architecture, or engineering to describe a central supporting structure.

Non-medical Usage

 with many new ones bred purely for appearance. Sadly, while all dog breeds are the product of artificial selection, some are healthier than others. Many of these aesthetic characteristics come with congenital health problems, such as difficulty breathing or being prone to spinal injuries.

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 The other thing that's really important about sleep is that it doesn't arise from a single structure within the brain, but is to some extent a network property. If we flip the brain on its back -- I love this little bit of spinal cord here -- this bit here is the hypothalamus,

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 It protects you from the world around you, and from yourself. As we grow, we install pain detectors in most areas of our body. These detectors are specialized nerve cells called nociceptors that stretch from your spinal cord to your skin, your muscles, your joints,

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 the cerebellum has nerve cells and nerve fibers. It carries signals to the other parts of the brain and to the spinal cord. The cerebellum is responsible for coordinating muscle movements, particularly those that help maintain the body's balance and posture.

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 How do my bionic limbs move like flesh and bone? At my MIT lab, we study how humans with normal physiologies stand, walk and run. What are the muscles doing, and how are they controlled by the spinal cord? This basic science motivates what we build.

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 that ultimately infected tens of thousands of people worldwide. Meningitis is the inflammation of the meninges, three tissue layers responsible for protecting the brain and spinal cord. What makes meningitis so dangerous compared to other diseases

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 So what does? We can't do anything about getting older or the genes we've inherited. So far, we haven't changed our brain's destiny. What about sleep? In slow-wave deep sleep, our glial cells rinse cerebral spinal fluid throughout our brains,

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 it will have this incredible sort of whole brain interface. It's going to be, like I said, at least a decade of really just solving brain injuries and spinal injuries. And really, I think you can solve a very wide range of brain injuries,

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 She said that the last time she had done it was on the Disneyland tram. The headquarters for orgasm, along the spinal nerve, is something called the sacral nerve root, which is back here.

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 hello I will tell you how poetry helps in scientific career I did my PhD on multiple sclerosis ms very complex disease to tell without cure which affects the brain spinal cord and optic