vertebra
Other forms: vertebrae; vertebras
A vertebra is one of the little bones in your spinal column; there are vertebrae up and down your back.
Your whole body is full of bones, and one of those types of bones are vertebrae: the bones in your back. These bones are very important because they protect your spinal column, which allows your brain to communicate with the rest of your body. A serious back injury could damage a vertebra, resulting in pain or spinal damage. If you bend over and then straighten up slowly, you can feel yourself rising one vertebra at a time.
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one of the bony segments of the spinal columntypes:dorsal vertebra, thoracic vertebraone of 12 vertebrae in the human vertebral column; thoracic vertebrae extend from the seventh cervical vertebra down to the first lumbar vertebralumbar vertebraone of 5 vertebrae in the human vertebral column; lumbar vertebrae extend from the twelfth thoracic vertebra down to the sacral vertebraesacral vertebraone of 5 vertebrae in the human spine that fuse in the adult to form the sacrum
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