1808 Barclay Muscular Motions 383The spino-scapulen portion of the deltoides is a flexor.
1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 572Small glomerate species, having a spino-tuberculous surface.
1859 Mayne Expos. Lex. 1188/1Spinocarpus,..having spinous fruit,..spinocarpous.
1869 G. Lawson Dis. Eye 75Some affection of the spino-sympathetic filaments.
1876 Dunglison's Dict. Med. Sci. ,Spinobulbar, relating to the spinal cord and the medulla oblongata, as the spino⁓bulbar neuroses.
1900 E. A. Schäfer Text-bk. Physiol. II. 806Another spino-cerebellar system, mainly crossed (heteromeric), lies in the ventro-lateral edge of the lateral column.
Ibid. 807Others , it is said..enter the diencephalon, ending in the ventro-lateral nucleus of the optic thalamus, forming a spino-thalamic system. [ sc. spinal cells]
1974 D. & M. Webster Compar. Vertebr. Morphol. xii. 278Like the ventral spinothalamic tract, with which it is confluent, the lateral spinothalamic tract joins the medical lemniscus in the brainstem.
1975 Sci. Amer. Jan. 71/2They found that one of the main afferent tracts leading to the cerebellum, the ventral spinocerebellar tract, conveys information not about the state of the body or the external environment but about the activity of inhibitory interneurons in the spinal cord.
ORIGIN: from Latin spina : see -o- .
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