What is "vertebral"

Usage examples of "vertebral".

Additional features distinguishing dinosaurs from other reptiles include: the division of the vertebral column into several regions, a long and mobile neck, and at least three sacral vertebrae in contact with the pelvis.

Characteristic of ornithischians are, among other skeletal features, the presence of ossified tendons along the vertebral column and the presence of at least five sacral vertebrae in contact with the pelvis.

Evolution increased the strength of the vertebrae, and reduced the amount of weight of the skeleton as sauropod vertebrae have a number of cavities and vertebral connections were reduced to slender rods and struts.

One of the fruits of Copes labors was the vertebral column of large marine reptile, a plesiosaur.

Scoliosis may be a cervicodorsal, dorsolumbar, or lumbosacral curve, and the inclination of the vertebral column may be to the right or left.

As I understand it, he actually anticipated in his pamphlet Saint Hilaire's theory of the universal type, and supported the hypothesis by describing the notochord of the amphioxus as a cartilaginous vertebral column.

Por tres veces me las vi bastante mal para poder salir de sus presas, que de otro modo me habrían roto la columna vertebral.

The sinuous winding and articulations of the vertebral spinal arrangement are anatomically perfect in the Argyleshire mound.

Except for the cord and its attendant meninges, the cut involved only the left and right vertebral arteries.

The embryo's neural tube, which develops into the brain, spinal cord, and vertebral column, fails to form properly, leading to varying degrees of permanent damage.

The bullet fractured the spinous process and the pedicles and lodged in the vertebral body.

A slipped vertebral disc is not an uncommon cause of pain in the sciatic nerve.

One soldier finally snatched the horned helmet from Stein's head while another swung a club, catching the giant at the back of the neck with a force that would have crushed the bones of a less heroic vertebral column.

The square, heavily armored box mounted beneath the laser cannon's curved forward support, resembling a thick breastplate with rows of input sockets and flickering LEDs, was the repository of all of D'harhan's cerebral functions, surgically encased and transferred there from the emptied skull, discarded like an empty combat-rations container when the massive weapon's base had been drilled into the collarbones and vertebral column.

Each had seven stigmata formed of delicately patterned white ash imprinted along the seared vertebral column and hairless skull.