Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the second cervical or odontoid vertebra; the axis: so called because the atlas turns upon it.
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- noun anatomy The
axis vertebra .
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Examples
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Second cervical vertebra, or epistropheus, from above.
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Second cervical vertebra, epistropheus, or axis, from the side.
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Total fracture-dislocation between the _atlas_ and _epistropheus_
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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