Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Placed under a vertehra; lying under the vertebral or spinal column; subspinal or hypaxial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Situated beneath, or on the
ventral side of, thevertebral column . - adjective anatomy Situated beneath, or inside of, the
endoskeleton ;hypaxial ;hyposkeletal .
Etymologies
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sub- + vertebral
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Examples
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In the reptiles (tortoises and crocodiles) a later dorsal part is joined to this earlier ventral part of the rudimentary diaphragm, a pair of subvertebral muscles rising from the vertebral column and being added as "columns" to the transverse partition.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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