Word Meanings - SUPRASPINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Situated above the vertebral column. Situated above a spine or spines; supraspinate; supraspinous.

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• SPINEL; SPINELLE
  A mineral occuring in octahedrons of great hardness and various colors, as red, green, blue, brown, and black, the red variety being the gem spinel ruby. It consist essentially of alumina and magnesia, but commonly contains iron and sometimes also
• SPINED
  Furnished with spines; spiny.
• SPINEL
  Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.
• COLUMN
  A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
• VERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
• SUPRASPINATE; SUPRASPINOUS
  Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.
• SPINE-TAILED
  Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. Spine- tailed swift. See Spinetail .
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• SPINE-FINNED
  Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.
• SPINETED
  Slit; cleft.
• COLUMNARITY
  The state or quality of being columnar.
• SPINELESS
  Having no spine.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• COLUMNIATION
  The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.
• COLUMNED
  Having columns. Troas and Ilion's columned citadel. Tennyson.
• SPINEBACK
  A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.
• SPINESCENCE
  The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• SEMICOLUMNAR
  Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
• SEMICOLUMN
  A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
• INTERVERTEBRAL
  Between vertebræ. -- In`ter*ver"te*bral*ly, adv.
• INTERCOLUMNIATION
  The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts. Gwilt. Note: It is customary to measure the intercolumniation in terms of the diameter of the shaft, taken also at the bottom. Different words, derived from the Greek,