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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Division into segments like those of the spinal column; vertebral formation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The formation of vertebræ; division into segments resembling those of the vertebral column.
Examples
“At first we see the vertebration in the hinder region of the skull very clearly.”
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
“Thus most of the "animal organs" take part in this vertebration.”
“This segmentation of the muscles was the momentous historical process with which vertebration, and the development of the vertebrate stem, began.”
“Beyond, (assuming a more hopeful tone,) the vertebration of the manly and womanly personalism of our western world, can only be, and is, indeed, to be, (I hope,) its all penetrating Religiousness.”
“(assuming a more hopeful tone,) the vertebration of the manly and womanly personalism of our western world, can only be, and is, indeed, to be, (I hope,) its all-penetrating Religiousness.”
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