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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lateral process in fishes to which the rib is usually attached.
- noun The second element of the typical hemal arch of a vertebra, situated between the pleurapophysis and the hemal spine, corresponding in part to the neurapophysis of the neural arch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The second element in each half of a hemal arch, corresponding to the sternal part of a rib.
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