Sentence examples for vertebrae behind from inspiring English sources
The cisterna chyli lies in front of the first and second lumbar vertebrae behind the crus of the diaphragm.
It is formed by the modification of the first four (or five) vertebrae immediately behind the skull, small portions of which have become separated and form a chain of four paired bones, or ossicles, named (from front to back) the claustrum, scaphium, intercalarium, and tripus.
In the egg-eating snakes (subfamily Dasypeltinae), the hypapophyses of a series of vertebrae a short distance behind the head have developed anteriorly directed tips that have a distinct coating of an enamel-like substance.
The tuatara spine is made up of hourglass-shaped amphicoelous vertebrae, concave both before and behind.
Behind the spinal vertebrae, in sagittal view, you'll see a white, rope-like structure.
The neck, or cervical, vertebrae are opisthocoelous i.e., with the bodies (centra) of the vertebrae hollowed behind to take the convex heads of the succeeding centra.
Sitting behind Mr Edwards was his son Gareth, who suffered three broken vertebrae, a broken shoulder blade and suspected bruising to his brain.
Unbroken mastodon ribs and vertebrae.
Lower vertebrae in good shape?
Four anterior vertebrae are elongated.
