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  • It consists of numerous separate bones, called vertebræ.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • The vertebral column is a flexuous and flexible column, formed of a series of bones called vertebræ.

    II. Osteology. 3. The Vertebral Column 1918

  • The spinal column is made up of four-and-twenty bones, called vertebræ, the breast of the breastbone and the ribs, which are four-and-twenty in number, twelve on each side, and the basin of the hips, the sacrum and the coccyx.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

  • Then it fell, shearing through the scales and flesh and vertebr-.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Conan glared at it with some curiosity, noticing the state of the bare bones, most of which were splintered and broken; the skull, which had fallen from the vertebr-, was crushed as if by some savage blow of tremendous force.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Conan glared at it with some curiosity, noticing the state of the bare bones, most of which were splintered and broken; the skull, which had fallen from the vertebr-, was crushed as if by some savage blow of tremendous force.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Then it fell, shearing through the scales and flesh and vertebr-.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • If you remove your hat you need not at the same time bend the dorsal vertebr 'of your body, unless you wish to be very reverential, as in saluting a bishop.

    The Laws of Etiquette Unknown

  • If the skull consists of vertebræ we should expect the centra of the skull-vertebræ to develop in the outer sheath at the sides of the cranial section of the notochord as two separate halves, just as do the bodies of the vertebræ; we should expect further the cartilaginous side-walls of the cranium to develop in the membranous brain-sheath just as the neural arches develop in the membranous sheath of the spinal column.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • The coccygeal vertebrœ are devoid of costal processes.

    II. Osteology. 1. Development of the Skeleton 1918

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