spina

[ spahy-nuh ]

/ ˈspaɪ nə /

a spine or spinelike projection.

Origin of spina

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin spīna thorn, backbone; see spine

What may be meant by spina piscis it is perhaps difficult to conjecture; but I can by no means make spina dorsi of it, as Dion.

A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume I (of 2) |Johann Beckman
In the centre of the area was the low wall called the spina, at each end of which were the met, or goals.

Walks in Rome |Augustus J.C. Hare
It rarely appears in children, unless it is associated with spina bifida.

Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry |Maximilian Stern
This case, comments Spina, proves that in the transportation to the Sabbat no corporal transference is involved.

Medival Heresy and the Inquisition |A. S. Turberville

It seems that in a corresponding place near the other end of the spina figures of dolphins were used for the same purpose.

The Letters of Cassiodorus |Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

spina

[ spī′nə ]

A spine-shaped or sharp thornlike anatomical process.