epipleural

from The Century Dictionary.

• Situated upon a pleurapophysis or pleural element of a vertebra, as a spine of a fish's back-bone; specifically, in vertebrate zoöl., pertaining to or of the nature of an epipleura.
• In entomology, pertaining to, on, or bordering the epipleura or inflexed outer side of a beetle's elytrum.
• noun Same as epipleura, 2.
• noun Same as epipleura, 1.

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

• adjective (Anat.) Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective anatomy Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra.