Meanings of spinous processes in English

Those which spring from the posterior of each arch are the spinous processes.

The hip blades were narrow and straight, the vertebrae chunky, with long, swooping spinous processes.

In this the spinous processes of the vertebrae can be felt, especially if the model bend forward.

The authors hypothesized that spinous processes can be used to guide the trajectory for lateral mass screw placement.

Group I had open surgical placement of the pins and Group II had pins placed into the spinous processes.

Spinal vibration was measured for two lumbar vertebrae using a transducer that was attached directly to the spinous processes.

Both had damage to their spinous processes, the projections visible as knobs running down the back of a living person.

The parts most esteemed are the tongue, the "hump-ribs" (the long spinous processes of the first dorsal vertebra), and the marrow of the shank bones.