interspinousadj.
/ɪntəˈspʌɪnəs/ Anatomy.
a. Situated between the spines or spinous processes of vertebræ.
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1842 E. Wilson Anatomist's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 97 The interspinous ligaments are thin and membranous.
1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 54 Adjacent spinous processes are also connected together by membranes..called interspinous ligaments.
b. spec. in Ichthyology. Situated between the spines of the vertebræ of a teleostean fish, so as to support the dorsal fin.
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1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 845/2 Interspinous bones..embedded in the flesh of the back.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 32 The inter-spinous bones and fin-rays of more highly organized fish.
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