Spine or spinal may refer to:

Science

Biology

  • Spinal 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 (film), American film
  • The Spine (film), a 2009 animated short by Chris Landreth
  • Spine (video game), an upcoming video game
  • The Spine, a novel by Ladislav Bublík
  • Spinal Column (sculpture), a 1968 sculpture by Alexander Calder
  • The Spine, Liverpool, a 14-storey building in Liverpool, England

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