Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Placed under a vertehra; lying under the vertebral or spinal column; subspinal or hypaxial.
Wiktionary
- adj. anatomy Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column.
- adj. anatomy Situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Anat.) Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
Etymologies
- sub- + vertebral (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the reptiles (tortoises and crocodiles) a later dorsal part is joined to this earlier ventral part of the rudimentary diaphragm, a pair of subvertebral muscles rising from the vertebral column and being added as "columns" to the transverse partition.”
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