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Перевод: vertebra

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Тезаурус:

1. Even today some creatures, such as modern sharks, still have a solid gelatinous backbone, probably exemplifying an embryonic structure midway between the cartilaginous and bony vertebra of more developed classes.
2. Buried within the plastic explosive had been a miniature detonator, or minidet, later extracted from within a fragment of vertebra that had been itself buried in the spleen.
3. This is only one vertebra of an animal much too bulky to appear in a book of this size!
4. 50 Vertebra of the Jurassic pliosaur, Liopleurodon species, Kimmeridge, southern England.
5. Its hindquarters squatted comfortably on the ground but the rest of it, from its fifth vertebra, was missing.
6. Rufus was not squeamish, he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery, but, curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones, so alien to him, so unidentifiable, being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra.
7. She crushed a vertebra in a seventh fence fall from Merry Master at Chepstow, and is likely to be out of action until February.
8. And in 1972 the matching shoulder blades, vertebrae and pelvis of a sauropod even bigger than Brachiosaurus was dragged from the clay in Colorado: the largest vertebra was about 1.5 metres long, suggesting the animal was more than 16 metres tall, weighing over 80 tons and may have been 3 metres in length.
9. In a typical lizard, every tail vertebra from the sixth one onwards has a special "plane of weakness" where a thin layer of cartilage replaces the stronger, bony tissue.
10. In addition each had a U-shaped bracket in the top of each vertebra which housed a stout cable-like ligament running the length of the neck.
11. Every rib and every vertebra could be counted.
12. Diameter of the vertebra is about 10 cm.
13. Each vertebra may be different from its neighbour but is, clearly, also very similar.