SPINAL CANAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spinal canal mean? 

• SPINAL CANAL (noun)
  The noun SPINAL CANAL has 1 sense:

1. the canal in successive vertebrae through which the spinal cord passes

  Familiarity information: SPINAL CANAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPINAL CANAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The canal in successive vertebrae through which the spinal cord passes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

canalis vertebralis; spinal canal; vertebral canal

Hypernyms ("spinal canal" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Holonyms ("spinal canal" is a part of...):

back; backbone; rachis; spinal column; spine; vertebral column (the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord)

 Context examples 

A primary or metastatic neoplasm that occurs within the spinal canal including the spinal cord and surrounding paraspinal spaces.

(Intraspinal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Another type of defect, Chiari malformation, causes the brain tissue to extend into the spinal canal.

(Neural Tube Defects, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Having to do with the space between the wall of the spinal canal and the covering of the spinal cord.

(Epidural, NCI Dictionary)

With CM, brain tissue extends into the spinal canal.

(Chiari Malformation, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

A radicular artery extending along the dorsal or ventral root of the cervical ganglia that penetrates the vertebral bone to supply the spinal canal.

(Medullary Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

A meningioma that arises in the epidural spinal canal space.

(Epidural Spinal Canal Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

An uncommon lipoma characterized by prominent vascularity that arises in the epidural space of the spinal canal.

(Epidural Spinal Canal Angiolipoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An injection of an anesthetic drug into the space between the wall of the spinal canal and the covering of the spinal cord.

(Epidural block, NCI Dictionary)

An anesthetic procedure that involves administering pharmaceutical agents into the epidural space of the spinal canal.

(Epidural block, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare benign adipose tissue neoplasm of the central nervous system frequently found in midline locations such as the corpus callosum, the quadrigeminal plate, the hypothalamus, the spinal canal or the cauda equina.

(Central Nervous System Lipoma, NCI Thesaurus)