Pleurocentrum

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One of the lateral elements of the centrum of a vertebra; a hemicentrum.
  • noun. A dorsal element in the rachitomous vertebras of certain ganoid fishes and stegocephalian amphibians. It is homologous with the centrum of the reptilian and mammalian vertebra.
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  • noun. One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.
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  • noun. One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebrae in some fossil batrachians.
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