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Definition of Centrum
1. Noun. The main body of a vertebra.
Group relationships: Vertebra
Terms within: Haemal Arch, Hemal Arch, Neural Arch, Vertebral Arch
Definition of Centrum
1. n. The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
Definition of Centrum
1. Noun. The central body of each vertebra ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Centrum
1. the body of a vertebra [n -TRUMS or -TRA]
Medical Definition of Centrum
1. Central portion. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centrum
Literary usage of Centrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science by Robley Dunglison (1856)
"The two centres of the opposite sides, together with the corpus callosum, form
the centrum ovale of ... centrum, see Vertebra—c. Commune, Solar plexus—c. ..."
2. Earthquakes and Other Earth Movements by John Milne (1899)
"THE DEPTH OF AN EARTHQUAKE centrum. The depth of an earthquake centrum—Methods
... Depth of centrum.—If we have determined the epicen- trum of an earthquake ..."
3. Revision of the Pelycosauria of North America by Ermine Cowles Case (1907)
"The border of the anterior face of the dorsal vertebrae with keeled centrum is
undulate. The obtuse inferior face of another dorsal is ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lesions of the Motor Projection Fibers in the centrum semi-ovale Lesions of the
motor conduction path just beneath the cortex also give rise to ..."
5. The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness by Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz (1853)
"The accompanying diagram serves to show after what manner the vertebral centrum
in the Ray enlarges with the growth of the animal, by addition of bony ..."
6. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Stems tufted, ascending, 1.5 to 3 dm. high, slender, 6-10-grooved ; ridges with
broad central grooves ; centrum i the 19. ..."
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