neurapophysial (nurapofizial)

[ neurapophysis (nū-ra-pof'i-sis), n.; pl. neurapophyses (-sēz). [ 3977 meeting its fellow in midline over the centrum of the vertebra, constitutes a neural arch and completes a neural canal. A neurapophysis consists e entially of the parts of a vertebra known in human anatomy as the pedicel and lamina; it usually bears other apophyses, as diapophyses or transverse proce es, zyga surmounted by a neural spine or spinous proce . See cut pophyses of oblique or articular proce es, and is usually under cervical.