vertebral arch

1. 1.

   a structure arising dorsally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the spinal cord

   Synonymsneural arch

   Broaderarch

   Part ofcentrum

Questions about vertebral arch

What does vertebral arch mean?

vertebral arch means "a structure arising dorsally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the spinal cord".

What is another word for vertebral arch?

Close synonyms include neural arch. 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 vertebral arch a common word?

vertebral arch 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.