English Explanatory Dictionary

epistropheus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The second cervical vertebra of the spine which forms the pivot upon which the first cervical vertebra (the atlas), which carries the head, rotates.

Word forms

epistropheus

Synonyms

axis vertebra dentata
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