Spine

Spine or spinal may refer to:

Biology

 * Vertebral 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 (1986 film), American film
 * The Spine (film), a 2009 animated short by Chris Landreth
 * 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 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