opisthocoelian love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hollow or concave behind, as a vertebra: applied to vertebrœ whose bodies or centra are concave on the posterior face.
  • Having opisthocœlian vertebræ, as a reptile; of or pertaining to the Opisthocœlia.
  • noun A reptile with opisthocœlian vertebræ, or belonging to the order Opisthocœlia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Concave behind; -- applied especially to vertebræ in which the anterior end of the centrum is convex and the posterior concave.

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  • adjective opisthocoelous

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