Usually means: Second cervical vertebra; supports head.
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  1. epistropheus: Wordnik
  2. epistropheus: Wiktionary
  3. epistropheus: Dictionary.com
  4. Epistropheus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. epistropheus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Epistropheus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. epistropheus: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (epistropheus)

noun:  (anatomy) The second cervical vertebra of the spine which forms the pivot upon which the first cervical vertebra (the atlas), which carries the head, rotates.

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