Medical Dictionary

vertebral body

noun

Medical Definition of VERTEBRAL BODY

:  the main anterior bony part of a vertebra that consists of the centrum, the ossified posterolateral joints linking the centrum and each half of the neural arch, and part of the neural arch

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