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extraspinal

extraspinal

7.9
Located outside the spine
  • adjective
  • /ˌɛkstrəˈspaɪnəl/
  • Specialized
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  • The doctors found extraspinal issues that were affecting the patient's mobility.
  • extraspinal DISH

Examples

  • The research focused on extraspinal factors contributing to chronic pain.

  • Patients with extraspinal disease at presentation also had poorer survival compared with those who did not, hypothesized to be due to increased tumor burden.

    Blog text (16)

  • BOX 1: Extraspinal Occurrence of DISH in Order of Frequency

    Academic text (2004)

  • Her symptoms indicated an extraspinal influence on her overall health.

Synonyms

nonspinal
vsextraspinal
  • Specialized
6.3

Not related to the spine or back

refers to things located outside the backbone

Surface Forms

extraspinal positive

Morphology

extraspinal = spinal (transparent) = extra + spine + al

The meaning is directly compositional: 'extra-' means outside or beyond, and 'spinal' means relating to the spine.

Etymology

The word extraspinal breaks into extra- meaning 'outside' and spinal from 'spine'. So extraspinal means something located outside the spine.