Spine

Spine or spinal may refer to:

Science

Biology

• Vertebral column, also known as the backbone
• Dendritic spine, a small membranous protrusion from a neuron's dendrite
• Thorns, spines, and prickles, needle-like structures in plants
• Spine (zoology), needle-like structures in animals
• SPINE (molecular biology) (strep–protein interaction experiment), a method for the detection of protein interactions

Medicine

• Spinal anaesthesia or "a spinal", an injection generally through a fine needle, usually long
• The Spine, a set of national service within the UK NHS Connecting for Health

Arts, entertainment and media

• The Spine (album), a 2004 They Might Be Giants album, including the songs "Spine" and "Spines"
• Spine (1986 film), American film
• The Spine (film), a 2009 animated short by Chris Landreth
• The Spine, a novel by Ladislav Bublík

Fictional entities

• Spinal (Killer Instinct), a fictional character from the video game Killer Instinct
• Spine, a demon in Blood Beast (2007) book of the Demonata saga
• The Spine, the fictional mountain chain which follows the west coast in The Inheritance Cycle
• The Spine, a singing automaton in the band Steam Powered Giraffe, portrayed by David Michael Bennett

Periodicals

• Spine (journal), a bi-weekly peer-reviewed journal of spine surgery, publish by Lippincott
• The Spine Journal, bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal, published by Elsevier

Other uses

• Spine (bookbinding), the closed edge of a book along which the pages are bound
• Spine, a measure of stiffness of an arrow shaft in archery

See also

• Anterior inferior iliac spine (AIIS), anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS), posterior inferior iliac spine, and posterior superior iliac spine
• Ischial spine, part of the posterior border of the body of the ischium bone of the pelvis
• Mental spine, on the mandible
• Anterior nasal spine, a bony projection in the skull
• Posterior nasal spine, for the attachment of the musculus uvulae
• Spine of scapula, a prominent plate of bone
• Spine of sphenoid bone (spina angulari) and ethmoidal spine