centrum
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We want a waiting area called a “centrum,” which is a place “where comfort and convenience meet,” and we want an eatery by Wolfgang Puck in the center of the centrum.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2021
So that it would seem that the atlas is a vertebra minus a centrum, and the axis is a vertebra plus a centrum, added at the expense of the atlas.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Now of these bones, the basioccipital is in every way equivalent to a vertebral centrum, for it develops in the basilar plate round the notochord.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
The two inner pairs of processes coalesce round the chorda, and later form the centrum; the upper outer pair meet above the spinal column; the lower outer pair form ribs.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
In the trunk vertebrae the opisthocoelous character of the centrum gradually diminishes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
Yellen, speaking a week after the Fed delayed a long-anticipated rate hike, said she and other Fed policymakers do not expect recent global economic and financial market developments to significantly affect the centra bank's policy.
From Reuters ● Sep. 24, 2015
Vertebral centra of Megatooth sharks are known in addition to teeth, but that’s it, and – unsurprisingly – there has been much tendency to over-estimate the size of this giant.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2013
The centra of the cervical and dorsal vertebrae have peculiar, S-shaped articular surfaces, and they interlock tightly.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 3, 2012
He found that the vertebral centra were first formed as rings in the chorda-sheath, which give off neural and hæmal processes.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
In others the bullet passed longitudinally through the thorax, grooving or perforating one or more centra.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
