Definition of Heterocoelous. Meaning of Heterocoelous. Synonyms of Heterocoelous

- Vertebrae with saddle-shaped articular surfaces on their bodies, called "heterocoelous", allow vertebrae to flex both vertically and horizontally while preventing...
- concavity. They are found in salamanders, and in some non-avian dinosaurs. Heterocoelous vertebrae have saddle-shaped articular surfaces. This type of configuration...
- axial skeleton as displaying a suite of avian characters, including heterocoelous centra, hypapophyses and reduction of the neural spines. First and foremost...
- elongation started from the first to the fourteenth caudal. The centra were heterocoelous (saddle-shaped at both facets). On the anterior caudals they were broad...
- indeterminate hadrosaur. The vertebrae are unusual in being weakly heterocoelous, which means that the centrum or body of a vertebra has saddle-shaped...
- the higher number of vertebrae in the synsacrum and the more advanced heterocoelous condition (saddle-shaped joint) of the only known cervical vertebra...
- opisthocoely) centra are posteriorly concave and anteriorly convex. heterocoelous (noun: heterocoely) centra are saddle-shaped at both ends. Amphicoely...
- defined edge of the ventral margin of the thoracic vertebrae, and the heterocoelous articular surface of the thoracic vertebrae. Its body length was estimated...
- drepanosaur with a toothless skull and a flexible neck owing to the heterocoelous (saddle-shaped) articular surfaces of the vertebral centrae. The neural...
- its vertebrae. The articular surfaces of its vertebral centres are heterocoelous (saddle-shaped). The neural spines are anteroposteriorly short and strongly...