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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, an intermediate vertebral centrum; a centrum interpolated between two others, as in the extinct batrachian order Ganocephala. Such a centrum occupies the position, and to some extent has the relations, of the intervertebral substance of ordinary vertebræ.
- noun Same as
centrum , 2 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.
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- noun anatomy The
median of the threeelements composing thecentra of thevertebrae in somefossil batrachians .
Etymologies
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inter- + centrum
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