Usually means: Individual bones forming the spine.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word vertebra:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. vertebra: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vertebra: Merriam-Webster
  3. vertebra: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vertebra: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vertebra: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vertebra: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vertebra, vertebra: Wordnik
  8. vertebra: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Vertebra (lateral view), Vertebra, Vertebra, Vertebra, Vertebra, Vertebra, Vertebra, Vertebra: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. vertebra: Wiktionary
  11. vertebra: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. vertebra: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. vertebra: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. vertebra: Dictionary.com
  15. vertebra: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. vertebra: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Vertebra (anatomy), Vertebra (disambiguation), Vertebra: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Vertebra: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. vertebra: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. vertebra: Rhymezone
  21. Vertebra: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. vertebra: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. vertebra: FreeDictionary.org
  24. vertebra: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. vertebra: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. vertebra: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vertebra: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. vertebra: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Vertebra: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  6. vertebra: Medical dictionary
  7. Vertebra: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. vertebra: Natural History Terms

(Note: See vertebrae as well.)

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noun:  (anatomy) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.

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