Spine or spinal may refer to:

Science

Biology

Spinal column The spinal column, also known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone, is the core part of the axial skeleton in vertebrates. The vertebral column is the defining and eponymous characteristic of the vertebrate. The spinal column is a segmen ...

, also known as the backbone *

Dendritic spine A dendritic spine (or spine) is a small membrane protrusion from a neuron's dendrite that typically receives input from a single axon at the synapse. Dendritic spines serve as a storage site for synaptic strength and help transmit electrical sign ...

, a small membranous protrusion from a neuron's dendrite *

Thorns, spines, and prickles In plant morphology, thorns, spines, and prickles, and in general spinose structures (sometimes called ''spinose teeth'' or ''spinose apical processes''), are hard, rigid extensions or modifications of leaf, leaves, roots, plant stem, stems, or pl ...

, needle-like structures in plants * Spine (zoology), needle-like structures in animals *

SPINE (molecular biology) SPINE stands for strep–protein interaction experiment. SPINE is a powerful tool to detect protein–protein interactions in vivo. The bait protein has to be expressed with a Strep-tag under the conditions when the potential interaction partners ar ...

(strep–protein interaction experiment), a method for the detection of protein interactions

Medicine

Spinal anaesthesia Spinal anaesthesia (or spinal anesthesia), also called spinal block, subarachnoid block, intradural block and intrathecal block, is a form of neuraxial regional anaesthesia involving the injection of a local anaesthetic with or without an opi ...

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 The NHS Connecting for Health (CFH) agency was part of the UK Department of Health (United Kingdom), Department of Health and was formed on 1 April 2005, having replaced the former NHS Information Authority. It was part of the Department of Healt ...

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

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 Inheritance Cycle'' is a tetralogy of young adult high fantasy novels written by American author Christopher Paolini. Set in the fictional world of Alagaësia (), the novels focus on the adventures of a teenage boy named Eragon and ...

'' * 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