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.