Definition of Cervical vertebra

1. Noun. One of 7 vertebrae in the human spine located in the neck region.

Exact synonyms: Neck Bone
Generic synonyms: Vertebra
Group relationships: Cervix, Neck
Specialized synonyms: Atlas, Atlas Vertebra, Axis, Axis Vertebra

Definition of Cervical vertebra

1. Noun. Any of the seven vertebrae of the neck. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cervical Vertebra

cervical rotator muscles
cervical segments of spinal cord
cervical sinus
cervical smear
cervical smears
cervical spine
cervical spine fractures
cervical spine fusion
cervical spines
cervical splanchnic nerves
cervical spondylosis
cervical tension syndrome
cervical triangle
cervical vein
cervical vertebra
cervical vertebrae
cervical vertebras
cervical vesicle
cervical zone
cervical zone of tooth
cervicalgia
cervicalis
cervicalis ascendens
cervicectomy
cervices
cervicide
cervicitis
cervicitises
cervico-

Literary usage of Cervical vertebra

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"The presence of these little ribs cannot be considered as a fact of much importance, for all the cervical vertebra bear representatives of ribs; ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Luther Holden (1878)
"The transverse processes are very small, not bifid, and perforated by the vertebral Fig. 97—7th cervical vertebra, or Vertebra ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"9) refers to a case in which a dislocation of a cervical vertebra was successfully reduced ... The commonest form of dislocation of the cervical vertebra, ..."

4. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Stanley P. L. Leong (1922)
"FRACTURE OF THE SIXTH cervical vertebra GHW, a white male, age forty-one, foreman of an oil distillery, walked into my office March 14, 1922, stating that ..."

5. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"Springing from the posterior edge of the vertebral rib is an uncinate (unc.), resembling a.-. n.ct Fio. 1030. — Columba livia. cervical vertebra. ..."

6. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"In the neck the furrow is broad, and terminates below in a conspicuous projection, which is caused by the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra ..."

7. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"The following are the common characters of a cervical vertebra. ... THIRD CERVICAL VERTEBRA. (AT) JA, from above and slightly from behind ; B, from the side ..."

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