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transverse process

A process projecting outward from the side of a vertebra.

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transverse process - one of two processes that extend from each vertebra and provide the point of articulation for the ribs

vertebra - one of the bony segments of the spinal column

appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process"

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