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Noun: haemal arch
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: hemal arch)
  1. A structure arising ventrally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the caudal blood vessels
    - hemal arch [N. Amer]

Derived forms: haemal arches

Type of: arch

Part of: centrum

Encyclopedia: Haemal arch