anticlinal vertebra

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The vertebra in a vertebral column which has a spinous process (spine) towards which the spines of all the other vertebrae are inclined; the vertebra at which the spine orientation changes.

Word forms

anticlinal vertebra anticlinal vertebrae
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