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1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 668 Full endlong from the roof the sleeper fell, And snapt the spinal joint, and wak'd in hell.

1726 A. Monro Anat. Humane Bones 181 That Protuberance..is called the Spinal Process, from which this whole Series of Bones has got its Name.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 199 The stake..they run up withinside the spinal bone.

?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 219 [It] is fixed..to the last spinal apophysis of the back.

c1793 Encycl. Brit. (1797) I. 759 A thin transparent substance, which from its indentations between the spinal nerves has obtained the name of ligamentum denticulatum.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 461 The spinal artery..had been noticed by Berengar, as a white shining line.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xxxvii. 18 Those remarkable nerves described by Lyonnet under the name of spinal bridle (bride épinière).

1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 360 They [hydatid tumors] have been met with, but in comparatively very few instances,..in the spinal canal.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 275 The 11th, or Spinal Accessory Nerve, is a comparatively insignificant one.

1896 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Jan. Suppl. 1/3 Only a few drops of fluid could be obtained by spinal puncture.

1919 A. Levinson Cerebrospinal Fluid i. 25 Corning, who was the first to use spinal puncture, employed an operation that was fraught with danger to the cord.

1972 Noback & Demarest Nervous System iv. 35 Some CSF is withdrawn and replaced by air which acts as a contrast medium. The air is introduced by passing a needle either directly into the ventricle or between the lower two lumbar vertebrae (spinal tap) into the lumbar cistern.

1979 Sci. Amer. Aug. 66/3 He underwent at least 48 spinal taps, three air encephalograms and numerous myelograms.

1980 K. E. Moyer Neuroanat. xii. 36/2 In a spinal tap, or spinal puncture, the needle is always introduced into the subarachnoid space below the termination of the spinal cord itself.