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neurapophysis Anat.|njʊrəˈpɒfɪsɪs|
Pl. -physes |-fɪsiːz|.
[f. neur- + apophysis.]
1. (Chiefly in pl.) One or other of the two processes of a vertebra which form the neural arch.
1839–47Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 824/2 Two superior laminæ..to protect the great nervous cord.., which Professor Owen proposes to call Neurapophyses. 1870H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1875) 388 Two bony arches which are called the ‘neural arches’ or ‘neurapophyses’, because they form with the body..the ‘neural canal’.
2. The spinous process arising from the junction of the bony elements which compose the neural arch; the neural spine.
1870H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1875) 695 Neurapophysis. The ‘spinous process’ of a vertebra, or the process formed at the point of junction of the neural arches. 1881Mivart Cat 35 This is the spinous process, neural spine, or neurapophysis. |