VERTEBRAL CANAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vertebral canal mean? 

• VERTEBRAL CANAL (noun)
  The noun VERTEBRAL CANAL has 1 sense:

1. the canal in successive vertebrae through which the spinal cord passes

  Familiarity information: VERTEBRAL CANAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERTEBRAL CANAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The canal in successive vertebrae through which the spinal cord passes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

canalis vertebralis; spinal canal; vertebral canal

Hypernyms ("vertebral canal" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Holonyms ("vertebral canal" is a part of...):

back; backbone; rachis; spinal column; spine; vertebral column (the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord)

 Context examples 

The nervous tissue found in that part of the central nervous system that is lodged in the vertebral canal.

(Gray Matter of the Spinal Cord, NCI Thesaurus)

Space between the dura mater and the walls of the vertebral canal.

(Epidural Spinal Canal Space, NCI Thesaurus)