neural arch in English

noun
1
the curved rear (dorsal) section of a vertebra, enclosing the canal through which the spinal cord passes.
In all of the dorsal vertebrae, the neural arches are comparatively simple, and lack deep or partitioned excavations between the zygapophyseal and diapophyseal laminae.
noun
    vertebral arch

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1. An arch extending from the top of the centrum is called a neural arch, while the haemal arch or chevron is found underneath the centrum in the caudal (tail) vertebrae of fish, most reptiles, some birds, some dinosaurs and some mammals with long tails.

2. Branchiosauria, nearest to the true batrachians; with persistent non-constricted notochord, surrounded by barrel-shaped, bony cylinders formed by the neural arch above and a pair of intercentra below, both these elements taking an equal share in the formation of a transverse process on each side for the support of the rib.

3. Branchiosauria, nearest to the true batrachians; with persistent non-constricted notochord, surrounded by barrel-shaped, bony cylinders formed by the neural arch above and a pair of intercentra below, both these elements taking an equal share in the formation of a transverse process on each side for the support of the rib