Word Meanings - VERTEBRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A 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.