spinous process (redirected from Spinous processes)

spinous process

n.

1. See sphenoidal spine.

2. The dorsal projection from the center of a vertebral arch.

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spinous process (spīˑ·ns prôˑ·ses),

n the median process, which resembles a plate or spine, of a vertebra's neural arch. In chiropractic medicine, Daniel David Palmer was the first to use this specific process as a lever in the manual adjustment of a spine.