Word Meanings - VERTEBRO- - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, a vertebra, vertebræ, or vertebral column; as in vertebrocostal.

Related words: (words related to VERTEBRO-)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• 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.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• 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.
• COLUMNED
  Having columns. Troas and Ilion's columned citadel. Tennyson.
• COMBINED
  United closely; confederated; chemically united.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• VERTEBRO-
  A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, a vertebra, vertebræ, or vertebral column; as in vertebrocostal.
• INDICATED
  Shown; denoted; registered; measured. Indicated power. See Indicated horse power, under Horse power.
• COMBINATE
  United; joined; betrothed.
• COMBING
  See CARDING (more info) 1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool. Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long
• 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.
• RELATION
  1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• 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.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• INVERTEBRATED
  Having no backbone; invertebrate.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• SEMICOLUMN
  A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
• INCOMBINE
  To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ. Milton.
• 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.