Vertebral

Definition: Vertebral

Vertebral

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or constituting vertebrae.

Date "vertebral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Vertebral

Domain	Definitions
Health	Of or pertaining to a vertebra. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Vertebral

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Centrality	Core, kernel; nucleus, nucleolus; heart, pole axis, bull's eye; nave, navel; umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith; vertebra, vertebral column; hotbed; concentration; (convergence); centralization; symmetry.
	Adjective: central, centrical; middle; azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric; middlemost; rachidian; spinal, vertebral.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Vertebral

English words defined with "vertebral": Acantha, accessory vertebral vein, anterior vertebral vein ♦ basivertebral vein ♦ Cardinal veins, coccyx, crookback, crookbacked ♦ Diphycercal, dislocation, dorsal vertebra ♦ Epichordal ♦ gibbous ♦ haemal arch, hemal arch, heterocercal, heterocercal fin, hollow-back, homocercal, homocercal fin, humpback, humpbacked, humped, hunchback, hunchbacked ♦ Infraspinal, Intercrural, Interspinous ♦ kyphosis, kyphotic ♦ lamina arcus vertebrae, lesser rhomboid muscle, lordosis, lumbar vein, lumbar vertebra ♦ medulla spinalis, musculus rhomboideus minor, myelomeningocele ♦ neural arch ♦ Pleurapophysis, Predorsal, Prevertebral, Proatlas, Protocercal, Pygostyle ♦ Rachidian, rachitis, rhomboid minor muscle ♦ Sacrovertebral, scoliosis, spinal column, spinal cord, spinal curvature, Sublumbar, Subvertebral, Supraspinal, Supraspinous, Sympathetic system ♦ tail bone, tenderloin, thoracic duct, thoracic vertebra, Trochoid ♦ undercut, Urosacral, Urostyle ♦ vena basivertebralis, vena lumbalis, vena vertebralis, vena vertebralis accessoria, vena vertebralis anterior, vertebral arch, vertebral artery, vertebral canal, vertebral column, vertebral vein, Vertebrarterial, Vertebrated, Vertebro-. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vertebral": Analgesia, Epidural ♦ bifida ♦ Cerebrovascular Trauma, cleft spine ♦ Epidural Neoplasms, Epidural Space ♦ Ganglia, Spinal ♦ Manipulation, Spinal ♦ plana ♦ Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome ♦ Scheuermann disease, Scheuermann's Disease, sistema de operação sobre disco, Somites, Spina Bifida Cystica, Spinal Fractures, Spinal Injuries, spondylosis ♦ VATER, vertebra plana, vertebral artery compression, Vertebral Artery Dissection, von Graefe spot. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vertebral" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (vertebral), Danish (vertebral), German (vertebral), Portuguese (spinal, vertebral), Romanian (vertebral), Spanish (vertebral), Swedish (vertebral).

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Commercial Usage: Vertebral

Domain	Title
Books	Diagnosis and Treatment of Pain of Vertebral Origin: A Manual Medicine Approach (reference) Gimnasia Para LA Columna Vertebral (reference) Grieve's Modern Manual Therapy: The Vertebral Column (reference) Imaging of Vertebral Trauma (reference) Radiology of Vertebral Trauma (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Vertebral

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	VACTERL association or a nonrandom association of specific newborn abnormalities include to name a few, vertebral dysgenesis, anal defect, cardiac anomalies, tracheoesophageal fistulae, esophageal atresia, radial limb and renal anomalies.Credit: CDC.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Vertebral

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		From autopsy studies he gained knowledge of the carotid and vertebral arteries that supply the brain with blood. (references)
		In the past, up to 40 percent of patients suffered from various complications, the most common being vertebral compression fractures. (references)
		These included laryngospasm, circulatory insufficiency, tooth damage, vertebral compression fractures, status epilepticus, peripheral nerve palsy, skin burns, and prolonged apnea. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Vertebral

"Vertebral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vertebral" is used about 18 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	18	82,615

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

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Expression: Vertebral

Expressions using "vertebral": accessory vertebral vein ♦ anterior vertebral vein ♦ vertebral arch ♦ vertebral artery ♦ vertebral artery compression ♦ Vertebral Artery Dissection ♦ vertebral canal ♦ vertebral columm ♦ vertebral column ♦ vertebral vein. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "vertebral": vertebral-body.
	Ending with "vertebral": inter-vertebral.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vertebral

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
vertebral column	78
coluna vertebral	31
vertebral artery	20
columna vertebral	18
hemangioma vertebral	15
vertebral compression fracture	13
vertebral fracture	10
vertebral subluxation	8
columna radiologia vertebral	8
vertebral axial decompression	7
vertebral artery dissection	7
vertebral	7
anatomia columna vertebral	5
columna de imagenes la vertebral	4
body vertebral	4
columna de traumatismo vertebral	4
basilar insufficiency vertebral	4
columna de espalda la vertebral	4
columna escoliosis vertebral	4
plasty vertebral	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vertebral

Language		Translations for "vertebral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vertebral, kurrizor (spinal, vertebrate). (various references)

Arabic		‏فقاري. (various references)

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

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

Czech		vertebrální, obratlový. (various references)

Danish		vertebral. (various references)

Dutch		vertebraal. (various references)

Finnish		vertebraalinen, nikama-. (various references)

French		vertébral (vertebrate). (various references)

German		vertebral, aus Wirbelknochen bestehend. (various references)

Greek		σπονδυλικός. (various references)

Hebrew		חוליתי. (various references)

Hungarian		gerinc- (spinal, spinalis). (various references)

Italian		vertebrale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		脊椎 (spine, vertebral column). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せきつい (spine, vertebral column). (various references)

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

Manx		vertebragh (vertebrate), dreeym-juntagh (vertebrate). (various references)

Pig Latin		ertebralvay

Portuguese		vertebral (spinal). (various references)

Romanian		vertebral. (various references)

Russian		позвоночный (spinal, vertebrate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kičmeni (spinal). (various references)

Spanish		vertebral. (various references)

Swedish		vertebral, ryggkots-. (various references)

Turkish		omurlu, omurlarla ilgili. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Vertebral

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vertebralis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vertebral

Derivations
	Words ending with "vertebral": intervertebral. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vertebral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vertabra, vertebr, vertebre, verterbi, vertibra. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vertebral"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "vertebral" (pronounced ver"tubrul)
5	-u b r u l	cerebral.
4	-b r u l	gambrel.
3	-r u l	amoral, ancestral, antiviral, apparel, astral, aural, auroral, austral, Balmoral, barrel, Beryl, boral, Carle, Carol, carrel, cathedral, central, choral, coral, feral, floral, goral, immoral, imperil, integral, intramural, laurel, Loral, minstrel, mistral, mitral, moral, mural, neural, neutral, nostril, octahedral, oral, orchestral, peril, plural, quarrel, rural, scoundrel, several, Sorel, Sorrel, spiral, sterile, tetrahedral, ventral, viral, virile.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Vertebral

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-r-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: traveler, vertebra.
	-2 letters: alerter, alterer, bleater, raveler, realter, rebater, relater, retable.
	-3 letters: barrel, barret, barter, bearer, beater, beaver, belter, berate, braver, brevet, elater, labret, laveer, leaver, realer, reaver, rebate, relate, retear, retral, reveal, reverb, revert, tearer, terrae, travel, treble, varlet, vealer, velate, verbal.
	-4 letters: abele, abler, alert, alter, arete, artel, avert, baler, barer, barre, beret, betel, bevel, blare, blate, blear, bleat, brave, breve, eater, elate, elver, evert, laree, later, laver, leave, lever, ratel, rater, ravel, raver, reave, rebar, rebel, relet, revel, revet, taber, table, taler, tarre, telae, terra, trave, valet, velar.
	-5 letters: abet, able, alee, aver, bale, bare, bate, bear, beat, beer, beet, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet, brae, brat, bree, earl, eave, ever, late, lave, lear, leer, leet, leva, rale, rare, rate, rave, real, rear, reel, rete, tael, tale, tare, teal, tear, teel, tela, tele, tree, vale, veal, veer, vela, vera, verb, vert.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-l-r-r-t-v"
	+2 letters: retrievable, traversable.
	+4 letters: irretrievable, irretrievably, overelaborate, rebarbatively, reverberantly.
	+5 letters: intervertebral, overelaborated, overelaborates, preservability, recoverability, retrievability.
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