transverse process in English

noun
1
a lateral process of a vertebra.
A fracture of the transverse process of a lumbar vertebra may damage the ureter.

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1. Feel the left transverse process of the C5 on the anterior surface.

2. A Cervical rib forms from the overdevelopment of the transverse process of a Cervical vertebra, typically from the seventh Cervical vertebra in the neck known as C7

3. The transverse process is a bony prominence that projects laterally off the right and left sides of each vertebra of the Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar regions of the spinal column.

4. Methods The courses, tracks, branches, outer diameters and length of the transverse process segment of vertebral artery were measured and observed on 40 sides of 20 fresh adult cadaverous specimens.

5. Usually there are three Constrictions which are present at the following locations: At the pelvi-uretric junction which is at the level of lower pole of kidney (at the level of tip of transverse process of 2nd lumbar vertebra)

6. The primitive condition for amniotes is Bicapitate ribs that form two separate joints with the vertebrae (Figure 1A).The capitulum of the rib articulates with the parapophysis on the vertebral centrum, and the tuberculum articulates with the diapophysis on the transverse process.

7. 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.

8. 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