Definition of Pleurapophisis

Definition of Pleurapophisis

||Pleu`ra*poph"y*sis (?), n.; pl. Pleurapophyses (#). [NL. See Pleura, and Apophysis.] (Anat.) One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al (#), a. Owen.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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