CENTRUM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: centra

Meaning:

The main body of a vertebra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("centrum" is a kind of...):

bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)

Meronyms (parts of "centrum"):

haemal arch; hemal arch (a structure arising ventrally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the caudal blood vessels)

neural arch; vertebral arch (a structure arising dorsally from a vertebral centrum and enclosing the spinal cord)

Holonyms ("centrum" is a part of...):

vertebra (one of the bony segments of the spinal column)