Vertebra Definition

vûrtə-brə
vertebrae, vertebras
noun
Any of the single bones or segments of the spinal column, articulating in the higher vertebrates with those adjacent to it by means of elastic fibrous disks.
Webster's New World

Any of the small bones which make up the backbone.

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Other Word Forms of Vertebra

Noun

Singular:
vertebra
Plural:
vertebrae, vertebras

Origin of Vertebra

  • From Latin vertebra (“joint"), from vertere (“to turn"). Having multiple vertebrae (plural of vertebra) in one's backbone instead of having a single bone or solid spine, allows for the movement of the body with bends and turns. Hence meaning 1.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin from vertere to turn wer-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vertebra Sentence Examples

  • The ribs of the second vertebra are not represented.

  • In anatomy, it is, among other uses, applied to the second cervical vertebra, and in botany itmeans the stem.

  • Sometimes the pad is reduced to a ventral semi-ring or meniscus; it retains its largest almost original shape and size in the second vertebra, the axis or epistropheus, where it forms a separately ossifying piece which connects, and coossifies with, the odontoid process (the centrum of the atlas) and the centrum of the second vertebra.

  • They include the mandible of a mastodon and a portion of a vertebra of a large fish, both found in the Lower Madison Valley; the skull and other parts of a dog (Mesocyon drummondanus), found near Drummond, Granite county; the skull of a Poatrephes paludicola, found near New Chicago,.

  • The genus Rana may be defined as firmisternal Ecaudata with cylindrical transverse processes to the sacral vertebra, teeth in the upper jaw and on the vomer, a protrusible tongue which is free and forked behind, a horizontal pupil and more or less webbed toes.

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