Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat spinous or prickly; like a spine to some extent: as, subspinous hairs in the pelage of a mammal.
- Situated under (ventrad of) the spinal column; hypaxial with reference to the backbone; subvertebral.
- Situated or occurring below. beneath, or on the under side of a spine, as of a vertebra, or of the scapula: infraspinous: as, a subspinous muscle (the infraspinatus).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Subvertebral.
- adjective (Med.) Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy
subvertebral - adjective medicine Situated beneath a
spinous process, such as that of thescapula .
Etymologies
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sub- + spinous
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Subacromial type is more common than subspinous c.
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