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vertebra

noun

Any of the small bones which make up the backbone.

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'vertebra' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to one of the small bones that make up the spinal column or backbone in humans and other vertebrate animals. Example: He suffered a severe injury to his cervical vertebrae during a car accident.

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He missed Euro 92 due to shin splints, played well for another four seasons, and then missed Euro 96 with a cracked vertebra.

The pain was the result of punctured lungs, 12 fractured vertebra, broken ribs, and a broken collarbone.

Tests conducted at a hospital shortly after Friday's match showed a fracture in his third vertebra.

It was retribution of sorts for Brazil's new captain, making his first start since a broken vertebra against the same opposition curtailed his involvement at the World Cup in brutal fashion.

Neymar has a broken vertebra.

Dr Silver and his colleagues partly severed the spinal cords of laboratory rats at the second vertebra.

His wife, the only other person in the vehicle, suffered a chipped vertebra, which has since healed.

And when the reference material is a pair of giraffes or a blue whale (each vertebra being almost the size of a chair and the jawbone weighing at least half a tonne), space becomes a problem.

The first successful hemicorporectomy (at the level between the lowest lumbar vertebra and the sacrum) was performed 18 months later by J. Bradley Aust and Karel B. Absolon, of Minnesota.

The vertebral column is made up of an atlas (the first vertebra of the neck) and 95 to 285 trunk vertebrae; no differentiated sacral vertebrae are present.

Snake vertebrae interlock firmly with one another; a hemispherical posterior projection from each articulates with an anterior concavity (i.e., a cup-shaped depression) on the vertebra in front of it.

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