epipleural
epipleural adjective: arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra.
Adjective
epipleural (not comparable)
- Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra
- epipleural spines1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals
- Relating to an epipleuron
Noun
epipleural (plural epipleurals)
- An epipleural bone
Forms of epipleural
| plural | epipleurals |
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Origin of epipleural
From epi- + pleural.
Words formed from epipleural
Words that rhyme with epipleural
- plural
- anural
- crural
- epidural
- extramural
- intramural
- jural
- mural
- neural
- pleural
- bronchopleural
- caesural
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- caricatural
- cesural
- commissural
- cynosural
- duoplural
- dural
- extradural
- extrapleural
- interpleural
- intradural
- intrapleural
- juxtapleural
- macrural
- myodural
- myoneural
- nomenclatural
- nonepidural
- nonneural
- nonrural
- peridural
- photomural
- postdural
- procural
- rural
- semirural
- sensorineural
- splanchnopleural
- sternopleural
- subdural
- subpleural
- superplural
- sural
- transdural
- transpleural
- Ural
- zygopleural
Questions about epipleural
- What does epipleural mean?
- Epipleural means arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra.
- What part of speech is epipleural?
- Epipleural can be an adjective or a noun.
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