adjective
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resembling a spine or thorn
the spinous process of a bone
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having spines or spiny projections
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another word for spinose
Other Word Forms
- interspinous adjective
- multispinous adjective
- postspinous adjective
- spinousness noun
- subspinous adjective
Etymology
Origin of spinous
Example Sentences
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Figure 7.25 Cervical Vertebrae A typical cervical vertebra has a small body, a bifid spinous process, transverse processes that have a transverse foramen and are curved for spinal nerve passage.
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The nuchal ligament is attached to the cervical spinous processes and superiorly to the base of the skull, out to the external occipital protuberance.
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The supraspinous ligament connects the spinous processes of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae.
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The transversospinales muscles run from the transverse processes to the spinous processes of the vertebrae.
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In Var. hirtum the plant is turbinate, subsessile, and hairy, with slender, spinous warts.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
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