extraspinal

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English

Etymology

From extra- +‎ spinal.

Pronunciation

Adjective

extraspinal (not comparable)

  1. Outside of the spine.
    • 2015 July 8, Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Priyantha Udaya Kumara Ralapanawa et al., “Spinal intradural metastasis from scapular Ewing sarcoma”, in BMC Research Notes, volume 8, →DOI:
      There is an intradural extra-medullary mass with an extraspinal component at C7-D2 level causing cord compression and there is a paraspinal component at this level which shows some degree of enhancement.