atlas vertebra

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   the 1st cervical vertebra

   Synonymsatlas

   Broadercervical vertebra

Questions about atlas vertebra

What does atlas vertebra mean?

atlas vertebra means "the 1st cervical vertebra".

What is another word for atlas vertebra?

Close synonyms include atlas. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atlas vertebra a common word?

atlas vertebra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.