Sentence examples for neural spine from inspiring English sources

The neural spine of the eleventh vertebra was fractured and healed while the neural spine of its third tail vertebra had an unusual hook-like structure.

Stromer speculated that males and females may have differed in the size of the neural spine.

It is likely that this undescribed leg bone belonged to the same individual animal as the neural spine.

The scute attaching to the neural spine has a round ridge with a shallow depression ovular in shape.

Two dorsal vertebrae were preserved with a complete, but very crushed neural arch, a neural spine with a characteristic shape: it is very widened distally and narrows downwards.

Another specimen, a small caudal (tail) vertebra, was also found to have an abnormal growth, this time on the top of its neural spine, which projects upwards from the vertebrae, allowing muscle attachment.

Similar growths from the neural spine have been found in specimens of Allosaurus and Masiakasaurus, probably resulting from the ossification of a ligament running either between the neural spines (interspinal ligament) or along their tops (supraspinal ligament).

In 1995, Pereda-Suberbiola et al. suggested that in a more traditional placement, the bands would have been horizontal along the body, with the neural spine in the middle of the back.

The neural spine is straight.

There is an elongated lamina with a double neural spine.

The neural spine has a large central lumen (Figure 16C).