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In anatomy, situated between the neural spines or spinous processes of successive vertebræ.
Interneural spine in ichthyology, one of the spiniform bones more or less interposed between the neural spines, and usually connecting with rays or spines of the dorsal fin or fins of fishes. They are generally dagger-shaped, and are plunged, as it were, up to the hilt in the flesh between the neural spines. See Interhemal.
An interneural part or formation, as in a fish. Groups of cartilaginous parts representing interneurals. Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, p. 632. A series of flat spines … called interneurals. Encyc. Brit., XII. 640.

The interneural plates are peculiar to the dog-fish in this comparison. — Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
The neural arch above the centrum, and containing the spinal cord, is made up of neural plates (n.p.), and interneural plates (i.n.p.), completed above by a median neural spine (n.s.). — Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata