Illustration: In a Japanese school science room, a teacher holds a flexible anatomical spine model upright beside a full skeleton viewed from behind. The individual vertebrae form a continuous column from beneath the skull to the pelvis, clearly matching the same structure on the skeleton.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

背せ骨ぼね

sebone

spine, backbone

Example sentences

  1. 背骨せぼねを折おってしまったんだ。

    I broke my back.

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  2. 私わたしの背骨せぼねの痛いたみはひどくなっています。

    The pain in my back is getting worse.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 人間にんげんの背骨せぼねは、33ないし34個この骨ほねでできています。

    The human spine consists of 33 or 34 bones.

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Kanji in 背骨

  • 背stature; heightOnハイKunせ・せい・そむく
  • 骨skeleton; boneOnコツKunほね

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