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Word Meanings - VERTEBRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.

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  • RACHIDIAN
    Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
  • COLUMN
    A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
  • VERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
  • COLUMNARITY
    The state or quality of being columnar.
  • 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
  • COLUMNIATION
    The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.
  • VERTEBRATE
    One of the Vertebrata.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • SPINAL
    Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral. 2. Of or pertaining to a spine or spines. Spinal accessory nerves, the eleventh pair of cranial nerves in the higher vertebrates. They originate from
  • COLUMNED
    Having columns. Troas and Ilion's columned citadel. Tennyson.
  • VERTEBRO-
    A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, a vertebra, vertebræ, or vertebral column; as in vertebrocostal.
  • VERTEBRALLY
    At or within a vertebra or vertebræ; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.
  • COLUMNATED
    Having columns; as, columnated temples.
  • VERTEBRATE; VERTEBRATED
    Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.
  • VERTEBRO-ILIAC
    Iliolumbar.
  • COLUMNAR
    Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. Columnar epithelium , epithelium in which the cells are priismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure , a structure
  • VERTEBRE
    A vertebra.
  • 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.
  • SEMICOLUMNAR
    Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
  • INVERTEBRATED
    Having no backbone; invertebrate.
  • SEMICOLUMN
    A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
  • 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.
  • INTERCOLUMNIATION
    The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts. Gwilt. Note: It is customary to measure the intercolumniation in terms of the diameter of the shaft, taken also at the bottom. Different words, derived from the Greek,
  • PERIVERTEBRAL
    Surrounding the vertebræ.
  • PREVERTEBRAL
    Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.

 

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