† minuca Obs. rare.
In 6 mynuca.
[app. med.L.; cf. med.L. nucha in the same sense (? a. Arab. nuχχ marrow, or nuχṭ spinal marrow).]
The spinal cord.
| 1548–77 Vicary Anat. ii. (1888) 19 The Sinew..[has] his beginning from the braine, or from Mynuca, which is the marowe of the backe. |