Usually means: Projection on a vertebra's process.
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  6. hyperapophysis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (hyperapophysis)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra.

Similar:
hypapophysis, anapophysis, diapophysis, metapophysis, parapophysis, paraphophysis, pleurapophysis, zygapophysis, apophyse, acantha, more...

Opposite:
hypapophysis, hypoapophysis

Types:
basioccipital, basisphenoid, exoccipital, supraoccipital, more...

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Similar:
hypapophysis, anapophysis, diapophysis, metapophysis, parapophysis, paraphophysis, pleurapophysis, zygapophysis, apophyse, acantha, more...

Opposite:
hypapophysis, hypoapophysis

Types:
basioccipital, basisphenoid, exoccipital, supraoccipital, more...



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