used as comb. form of L. spīna spine, in a few terms of Anat., Bot., etc., as Spino-bulbar, -carpous, -scapulen, -sympathetic, -tuberculous adjs.
1808. Barclay, Muscular Motions, 383. The spino-scapulen portion of the deltoides is a flexor.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 572. Small glomerate species, having a spino-tuberculous surface.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1188/1. Spinocarpus,… having spinous fruit,… spinocarpous.
1869. G. Lawson, Dis. Eye, 75. Some affection of the spino-sympathetic filaments.
1876. Dunglison’s Dict. Med. Sci., Spinobulbar.… Relating to the spinal cord and the medulla oblongata; as the Spinobulbar neuroses.
