What is another word for vertebral?

Pronunciation: [vˈɜːtɪbɹə͡l] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "vertebral" that are commonly used in medical terminology. Some of these synonyms may include spinal, spinal column, backbone, spinal cord, and vertebrate. Vertebro, vertebrospinal, and vertebrated are also related terms that are often utilized. These synonyms are frequently used in discussions about the human anatomy, especially in discussions about the bones, tissues, and organs that make up the spinal column and spinal cord. By using these synonyms, doctors and healthcare professionals can communicate more clearly with one another and avoid confusion about the specific location or function of various parts of the body.

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Usage examples for Vertebral

I took out my knife, and inserting it between the vertebral bones that joined his head to his neck, divided the spinal marrow, and he immediately expired.
"The Pacha of Many Tales"
Captain Frederick Marryat
The vertebral column of one skeleton found by Dr. Buckley at a spot visited by me, extended to the length of nearly seventy feet, and not far off part of another backbone nearly fifty feet long was dug up.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
Unless you are sensible of some strong frame within your work, something vertebral, it is best to renounce it, and attempt something else in which you can feel it.
"The Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells

Famous quotes with Vertebral

  • Gaskell could not abide this indecorous version of his beloved linear progress theory. He could not bear to imagine that the grand procession from jellyfish to man, orchestrated by an ever-increasing mass of nervous tissue, once paused in its stately and orderly march toward human consciousness in order to execute a fancy little flip, a clever jig of inversion, just at the sublime and definitive moment of entrance into the vertebral home stretch.
    Stephen Jay Gould

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