spinous

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Follicles oblong or ovate, often somewhat muricate with soft spinous projections.

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The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.

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These spinal pains are always aggravated by pressure made on either side of the spinous processes of the vertebr�, and, like the cephalic pains, are more or less mitigated by revulsive applications.

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The spinous processes of the anterior thoracic region are high and compressed.

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In these cases the peduncles may persist and may even be modified into spinous organs of defence.

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