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Spinal Tap is a semi-fictitious heavy metal rock band that first appeared in the 1984 Rob Reiner film This Is Spinal Tap. The band is portrayed as being British, although several of the band members are played by Americans. The film was a make-believe documentary (a mockumentary or "rockumentary") that satirized the wild personal behaviour and musical pretensions of bands such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, the latter-day Beatles, Judas Priest, and Queen among many others. ...
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| spina |
The site of Spina, the Etruscan port city on the Adriatic, at the ancient mouth of the Po south of the lagoon where Venice would one day rise, was lost until modern times, when drainage schemes in the delta of the Po in 1922 first officially revealed a necropolis of Etruscan Spina about four miles west of the commune of Comacchio. ...
Ãâó: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spina
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| spinal tap |
A procedure in which a needle is put into the lower part of the spinal column to collect cerebrospinal fluid or to give drugs. Also called a lumbar puncture.
Ãâó: www.stjude.org/glossary
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| spinal cord |
A column of nerve tissue that runs from the base of the skull down the back. It is surrounded by three protective membranes, and is enclosed within the vertebrae (back bones). The spinal cord and the brain make up the central nervous system, and spinal cord nerves carry most messages between the brain and the rest of the body.
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| spinal sign |
tonic contraction of the spinal muscles on the diseased side in pleurisy.
Ãâó: www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/thcp_dorlands_conte...
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