Word Meanings - CENTRUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

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• VERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
• VERTEBRA
  One of the serial segments of the spinal column. Note: In many fishes the vertebræ are simple cartilaginous disks or short cylinders, but in the higher vertebrates they are composed of many parts, and the vertebræ in different portions of the
• VERTEBRATE
  One of the Vertebrata.
• VERTEBRALLY
  At or within a vertebra or vertebræ; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.
• VERTEBRATE; VERTEBRATED
  Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
• VERTEBRATA
  One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, comprising all animals that have a backbone composed of bony or cartilaginous vertebræ, together with Amphioxus in which the backbone is represented by a simple undivided notochord. The Vertebrata
• VERTEBRARTERIAL
  Of or pertaining to a vertebræ and an artery; -- said of the foramina in the transverse processes of cervical vertebræ and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• INVERTEBRATE
  Destitute of a backbone; having no vertebræ; of or pertaining to the Invertebrata. -- n.
• INVERTEBRATA
  A comprehensive division of the animal kingdom, including all except the Vertebrata.
• INVERTEBRATED
  Having no backbone; invertebrate.
• PROTOVERTEBRA
  One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm. Note: The protovertebræ
• INTERVERTEBRAL
  Between vertebræ. -- In`ter*ver"te*bral*ly, adv.
• PERIVERTEBRAL
  Surrounding the vertebræ.
• PREVERTEBRAL
  Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.
• SUBVERTEBRAL
  Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
• INVERTEBRAL
  See INVERTEBRATE
• PROTOVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the protovertebræ.