Anticlinal vertebra
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| (Anat.) | one of the dorsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the neighboring vertebræ are inclined. |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.