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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as centrum, 2 .
  • noun In anatomy, an intermediate vertebral centrum; a centrum interpolated between two others, as in the extinct batrachian order Ganocephala. Such a centrum occupies the position, and to some extent has the relations, of the intervertebral substance of ordinary vertebræ.

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

  • noun (Anat.) The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.

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  • noun anatomy The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians.

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inter- +‎ centrum

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