spinal

Other forms of spinal

plural

spinals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spinal

What does spinal mean?

spinal means "anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spinal?

spinal has 2 syllables: spi-nal. The stress falls on "spi". In IPA it is /ˈspaɪnəl/.

What is another word for spinal?

Close synonyms include spinal anesthesia, spinal anaesthesia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spinal a common word?

spinal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.