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Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian.

At or within a vertebra or vertebræ; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.

Between vertebræ. -- In`ter*ver"te*bral*ly, adv.

Same as Invertebrate.

Surrounding the vertebræ.

Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.

Of or pertaining to the protovertebræ.

Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.

Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.

The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra. Dunglison.

olumn of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

. -- Cardinal veins (Anat.), the veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. -- Cardinal virtues, preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. -- Cardinal winds, winds whi…

group of moldings, common in Norman architecture. Chevron bones (Anat.), The V-shaped subvertebral arches which inclose the caudal blood vessels in some animals.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebræ more or less consolidated.

To twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest. The vertebral arteries are variously contorted. Ray. Kant contorted the term category from the proper meaning of attributed. Sir W. Hamilton.

Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal.

Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it.

Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.

Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal.