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| individual bone in the flexible column that defines vertebrate animals |
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| largest part, roughly cylindrical, anterior section |
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| posterior part, formed by pair of pedicles and laminae |
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| connect body to arch, short thick processes that project dorsally |
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| two broad plates, extending dorsally and medially from the pedicles, fusing to complete the roof of the vertebral arch |
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| hole between body and arch |
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| space in vertebrae through which the spinal cord passes, inside vertebral foramen |
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| concavity above the pedicles |
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| concavity below the pedicles |
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| openings between vertebra made by pedicles |
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| slender projection from the back of a vertebra to which muscles and ligaments are attached |
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