Cervical: alternatives and connections

A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another recei…

Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebrae.

A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its bod…

An accessory process in many lumbar vertebrae.

A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and…

Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebrae.

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.

one of 4 vertebrae in the human coccyx

one of 7 vertebrae in the human spine located in the neck region

An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum united with t…

Of or pertaining to the coccyx; as, the coccygeal vertebrae.

one of 4 vertebrae in the human coccyx

The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consol…

Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae.

To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully.

Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.

one of 12 vertebrae in the human vertebral column; thoracic vertebrae extend from the seventh cervical vertebra down to the first lumb…

Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficent, being somewhat hollowed out.