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Spine or Spinal may refer to:
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Medicine
- Vertebral column, commonly known as the backbone
- Spinal anaesthesia, a type of regional anaesthetic
- Lumbar puncture, a colloquial term for which is a spinal tap
- Spine (journal), a bi-weekly peer-reviewed journal of spine surgery, published by Lippincott
- The Spine Journal, bi-monthly peeer-reviewed journal, published by Elsevier
- Spinal cord, the bundle of nerve cells and nerve fibers within the vertebral column
- The Spine, a set of national services used by the NHS Care Record Service (an electronic patient record system)
Science
- SPINE (molecular biology), an acronym for Strep-Protein INteraction Experiment, a method for the detection of protein protein interactions
- Spine (zoology), needle-like structures in animals
- Spine (botany), needle-like structures in plants
- Dendritic spine, a specialized postsynaptic protrusion in dendrites implicated in learning and memory through synaptic plasticity
- SPINE (software), an open source Web content management system
Entertainment
- The Spine, a 2004 They Might Be Giants album, including the songs "Spine" and "Spines"
- Spinal Tap (band), a semi-fictional heavy metal band
- Spinal (Killer Instinct), a fictional character from the video game Killer Instinct
- Spine, a demon in Blood Beast, 2007 book of the Demonata saga
Other uses
- Spine (archery), a measure of stiffness
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