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spinal

/spaɪ.nəl/ noun C2
  1. A spinal anesthesia. (colloquial)

Plural spinals

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Picture to yourself the unilateral development, the imminent danger of a spinal curvature.
The Valley of Fear, p. 65 · C1
Spinal meningitis, he thought.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 60 · B2
I believe he thrusts pins through the heads of rabbits, he makes fowls eat madder, and punches the spinal marrow out of dogs with whalebone.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 727 · C1
“This must be very flattering to the feelings of the rabbits into whose heads he has thrust pins, to the fowls whose bones he has dyed red, and to the dogs whose spinal marrow he has punched out?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 727 · C1

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