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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An apophysis or outgrowth of a vertebra on the opposite side of the vertebral axis from a neurapophysis, and inclosing or tending to inclose some viscus. See cut under
hypapophysis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) Any element of the skeleton in relation with the alimentary canal, as the jaws and hyoidean apparatus.
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