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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, a process or part of a vertebra which, meeting its fellow in midline over the centrum of the vertebra, constitutes a neural arch and completes a neural canal.

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

  • noun One of the two lateral processes or elements which form the neural arch.
  • noun The dorsal process of the neural arch; neural spine; spinous process.

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  • noun anatomy the structure that forms the neural arch of a vertebra

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