Usually means: Embryonic precursor to the atlas vertebra.
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  2. proatlas: Wiktionary
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  4. Proatlas: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. proatlas: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Proatlas: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. proatlas: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Proatlas: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. proatlas: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. proatlas: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  (anatomy) A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

Similar:
atlas, protovertebra, epistropheus, prevertebra, acantha, pararthrum, dens, notarium, prosternum, vertebral arch, more...

Opposite:
retroatlas, antiatlas, contraatlas

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Similar:
atlas, protovertebra, epistropheus, prevertebra, acantha, pararthrum, dens, notarium, prosternum, vertebral arch, more...

Opposite:
retroatlas, antiatlas, contraatlas



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