Definitions for vertebras

vertebras ver·te·bra

Spelling: [vur-tuh-bruh]
IPA: /ˈvɜr tə brə/

Vertebras is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 380 anagrams from letters in vertebras (abeerrstv).

Definitions for vertebras

noun

  1. any of the bones or segments composing the spinal column, consisting typically of a cylindrical body and an arch with various processes, and forming a foramen, or opening, through which the spinal cord passes.

Origin of vertebras

1570-80; Latin: (spinal) joint, equivalent to verte(re) to turn (see verse) + -bra noun suffix

Examples for vertebras

The blow had dislodged a vertebra and I was in horrible pain.

One vertebra had given way in Ganjigal when I picked up an Askar and slipped in the bloody mud under him.

I have no idea when the second vertebra went out during the battle.

In woman the tail is generally290 by one vertebra longer than in man.

It is the vertebra which steadies him plumb up to a positive perpendicular.

The vertebra and femur were found in the lower subdivision of the Pampas formation.

These are an atlas vertebra (the vertebra next to the skull) and a thigh-bone.

The base of the neural arch is also concave in this vertebra.

Secondly, it dislocates the vertebra, which is now the actual cause of death.

They are last traceable on the eighth or ninth caudal (vertebra 35 or 36).

Word Value for vertebras
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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