Pygostyle: alternatives and connections

The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.

A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

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

A knife or cutter, attached to the beam of a plow to cut the sward, in advance of the plowshare and moldboard.

Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air,…

Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

a union of workers for a single company; a union not affiliated with a larger union

Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal.

a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

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

Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguis…

Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sha…

Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal.

Below the vertebral column, subvertebral.

Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.

Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.