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or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.

nerves are situated in the body cavity and form a chain of ganglions on each side of the vertebral column connected with numerous other ganglions and nerve plexuses.

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

ct (Anat.), the great trunk of the lymphatic vessels, situated on the ventral side of the vertebral column in the thorax and abdomen. See Illust. of Lacteal.

The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.

n axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.

Of or pertaining to both the caudal and sacral parts of the vertebral column; as, the urosacral vertebræ of birds.

A styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians.

in the transverse processes of cervical vertebræ and of the canal which they form for the vertebral artery and vein.

Having a backbone, or vertebral column, containing the spinal marrow, as man, quadrupeds, birds, amphibia, and fishes.

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