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Other Words From
- verte·bral·ly adverb
- non·verte·bral adjective
- post·verte·bral adjective
- pre·verte·bral adjective
- sub·verte·bral adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of vertebral1
Example Sentences
Two patients died, one from significant blood loss after the operation and the other from a stroke caused by a cut vertebral artery.
Campana and his colleagues used vertebral growth-band counts to also figure out the ages of 18 additional dead whale sharks.
But these young women all suffered a rare kind of stroke caused by a vertebral artery dissection, or VAD.
With one incision Balsamo separated the vertebral column a couple of inches from the brain, and opened a yawning gash.
The vertebral bones serve as mortars in which fish, which have been previously dried in the sun, are pounded.
I may conclude this chapter by a brief view of the Fauna of the higher vertebral animals.
The vertebral column itself is limp and soft, the vertebræ only imperfectly formed and made of soft cartilage.
A single one of these fist-blows, planted in the back, would suffice to break the vertebral column.
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