Word Meanings - VERTEBRARTERIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to VERTEBRARTERIAL)

• FORAMINATED
  Having small opening, or foramina.
• CANAL
  A tube or duct; as, the alimentary canal; the semicircular canals of the ear. Canal boat, a boat for use on a canal; esp. one of peculiar shape, carrying freight, and drawn by horses walking on the towpath beside the canal. Canal lock. See Lock.
• VERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CANALICULATE; CANALICULATED
  Having a channel or groove, as in the leafstalks of most palms.
• 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
• TRANSVERSELY
  In a transverse manner.
• CANALIZATION
  Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• 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
• VERTEBRO-
  A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, a vertebra, vertebræ, or vertebral column; as in vertebrocostal.
• CANALICULUS
  A minute canal.
• 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.
• CANAL COAL
  See COAL
• VERTEBRO-ILIAC
  Iliolumbar.
• TRANSVERSE
  Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) , that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition , a partition, as of a pericarp,
• CERVICAL
  Of or pertaining to the neck; as, the cervical vertebræ.
• VERTEBRE
  A vertebra.
• 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.
• DECANAL
  Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side
• INTERTRANSVERSE
  Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
• 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.