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odontoid process definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a toothlike process at the back of 2nd vertebra of the neck

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1819 a toothlike process projecting from the anterior end of the centrum of the axis vertebra on which the atlas vertebra rotates

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Odontoid O*don"toid, a. [Gr. ?; 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth + ? form: cf.F. odonto["i]de.] (Anat.) (a) Having the form of a tooth; toothlike. (b) Of or pertaining to the odontoid bone or to the odontoid process. Odontoid bone (Anat.), a separate bone, in many reptiles, corresponding to the odontoid process. Odontoid process, or Odontoid peg (Anat.), the anterior process of the centrum of the second vertebra, or axis, in birds and mammals. See Axis.