VERTEBRAE

Definition: VERTEBRAE

VERTEBRAE

Plural

1. Of Vertebra

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "VERTEBRAE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Specialty Definitions: VERTEBRAE

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	A bony unit of the segmented spinal column. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: VERTEBRAE

English words defined with "VERTEBRAE": Amphicoelous, Anapophysis, arteria lumbalis ♦ back, backbone, basivertebral vein ♦ Camarasaurus, canalis vertebralis, caudal vertebra, cervical vertebra, coccygeal vertebra, compression fracture, Costiferous ♦ dorsal vertebra ♦ fusion ♦ Ginglymodi ♦ herniated disc ♦ Ichthyornis, Intercentrum, Intertransverse, intervertebral, intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk, Isospondylous ♦ lamina arcus vertebrae, laminectomy, lumbar artery, lumbar vertebra ♦ Manx cat, musculus scalenus ♦ neck bone ♦ Opisthocoelous, Opisthomi, order Stereospondyli, order Temnospondyli, osteoblastoma ♦ Paxwax, Perivertebral, Platycoelian, Plectospondyli, Pleurocentrum, Pott's disease, Procoelia, Procoelian, Pygostyle ♦ rachis, rachischisis, Rhachiodont, Rhynchocephala, ruptured intervertebral disc ♦ sacral vertebra, sacrum, scalene muscle, scalenus, schistorrhachis, slipped disc, spina bifida, spinal canal, spinal column, spinal fusion, spine, Stereospondyli, Suchospondylous ♦ Teleosaur, Temnospondyli, thoracic vertebra ♦ Urosacral ♦ vena basivertebralis, vena vertebralis, vertebral, vertebral canal, vertebral column, vertebral vein, Vertebrally, Vertebrarterial, Vertebrated, Vertebro- ♦ Whettlebones, whiplash, whiplash injury ♦ Zygosphene. (references)

Specialty definitions using "VERTEBRAE": Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome ♦ encefalite dell'Ontario, encefalomielite da coronavirus, encefalomielite emoagglutinante ♦ geckos ♦ Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal ♦ Ligamentum Flavum ♦ Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal ♦ Pancoast tumor, Psoas Abscess ♦ Quincke's puncture ♦ sindrome vomito-emaciazione, Spinal Osteophytosis ♦ Tuberculosis, Spinal. (references)

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Modern Usage: VERTEBRAE

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	But I slammed her on her back til her vertebrae broke ("Murder Murder (Remix) *"; performing artist: Eminem)
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Commercial Usage: VERTEBRAE

Domain	Title
Books	Lumbar Vertebrae and Injuries: Medical Subject Analysis With Reference Bibliography (reference) Occult Traumatic Lesions of the Cervical Vertebrae and Thoraco-Lumbar Vertebrae With an Evaluation of the Role of C.T. (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: VERTEBRAE

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Photo Album: VERTEBRAE

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Whale Vertebrae.Credit: Alaska Image Library.
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Familiar Quotations: VERTEBRAE

Author	Quotation
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
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Non-Fiction Usage: VERTEBRAE

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The vertebrae are linked by ligaments, tendons, and muscles. (references)
		In a spinal fusion, the two vertebrae are then fused together. (references)
		Finally, the scientists wired the vertebrae to keep the spine in place while the area healed. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: VERTEBRAE

"VERTEBRAE" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.15% of the time. "VERTEBRAE" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	99.15%	116	29,969
Lexical Verb (-s form)	0.85%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	117	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: VERTEBRAE

Expression using "VERTEBRAE": lamina arcus vertebrae. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "VERTEBRAE": vertebrae-shattering.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VERTEBRAE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
vertebrae	53
cervical vertebrae	29
lumbar vertebrae	14
thoracic vertebrae	12
fractured vertebrae	10
giraffe vertebrae	8
transitional vertebrae	7
does giraffe have in its many neck vertebrae	6
compressed vertebrae	6
picture vertebrae	5
human vertebrae	5
vertebrae fusion	4
neck vertebrae	4
giraffe neck vertebrae	4
crushed vertebrae	3
cervical fusion vertebrae	3
broken vertebrae	3
extra vertebrae	3
vertebrae fracture	3
spine and vertebrae	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: VERTEBRAE

Language		Translations for "VERTEBRAE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rruaza. (various references)

Bulgarian		гръбначен стълб (spinal column, spine, vertebral column). (various references)

Chinese		椎骨 (Vertebra, Vertebral). (various references)

Czech		páteř (backbone, ridge, spine). (various references)

Danish		vertebrae, ryghvirvler. (various references)

Dutch		spo�dylitis (spondylitis, vertebrae inflammation), blokwervel (fused intervertebral disk, fused vertebrae). (various references)

Finnish		häntänikama (caudal vertebrae, tail bone). (various references)

French		vertèbres. (various references)

German		Wirbel (burble, catch, cowlick, crown, eddies, Eddy, frenzy, peg, pirouette, roll, squish, swirl, swirling, swivel, to-do, turmoil, vertebra, vortex, vortices, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, whorl), die Wirbelsäule. (various references)

Greek		σπόνδυλοι. (various references)

Hungarian		hátgerinc (backbone, spine). (various references)

Italian		vertebra (vertebra). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		腰椎 (lumbar vertebrae), � �椎 (cervical vertebrae). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ようつい (lumbar vertebrae), けいつい (cervical vertebrae). (various references)

Korean		척�" (spinal, Vertebra, Vertebral). (various references)

Pig Latin		ertebraevay

Portuguese		vértebras. (various references)

Russian		позвоночник (backbone, rachis, spine, spines). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pršljenovi. (various references)

Spanish		bloqueo vertebral (fused intervertebral disk, fused vertebrae). (various references)

Turkish		omurlar, omurga (backbone, Carina, Chine, keel, rachis, spinal coloumn, spine, vertebral column), bel kemiği. (various references)

Ukranian		хребет (edge, ridge, spine). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: VERTEBRAE

Misspellings
	"VERTEBRAE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vertabra, vertabrae, vertebr, vertebre, verterbi, vertibra. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: VERTEBRAE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-r-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: bereaver, vertebra.
	-2 letters: bereave, rebater.
	-3 letters: barret, barter, bearer, beater, beaver, berate, braver, brevet, reaver, rebate, retear, reverb, revere, revert, tearer, terrae.
	-4 letters: arete, avert, barer, barre, beret, brave, breve, eater, evert, rater, raver, reave, rebar, reeve, revet, taber, tarre, terra, trave.
	-5 letters: abet, aver, bare, bate, bear, beat, beer, beet, beta, brae, brat, bree, eave, ever, rare, rate, rave, rear, rete, tare, tear, tree, veer, vera, verb, vert.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-r-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: vertebrate.
	+2 letters: retrievable, reverberant, reverberate, vertebrates.
	+3 letters: invertebrate, reverberated, reverberates.
	+4 letters: invertebrates, irretrievable, overelaborate, overexuberant, reverberantly, reverberating, reverberation, reverberative, reverberatory.
	+5 letters: intervertebral, overelaborated, overelaborates, reverberations.
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