"backward" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The pedicles are directed backward and slightly upward, and the inferior vertebral notches are of large size, and deeper than in any other region of the vertebral column.
- The superior articular surfaces are directed upward and backward; the spinous process is thick, long, and almost horizontal.
- But his gaze was also directed backward, to Europe between the world wars.
- The spinous process of a vertebra is directed backward and downward from the junction of the laminae (in humans), and serves for the attachment of muscles and ligaments.
- The external surface, known as the dorsum ilii, is directed backward and lateralward behind, and downward and lateralward in front.
- The bone is also directed more obliquely backward; this increases the size of the pelvic cavity and renders the sacrovertebral angle more prominent.
- Each segment carries a spine at midline too that is directed backward, a character that distinguishes Beckwithia from other Aglaspidid genera.
- Behind the optic foramen the anterior clinoid process is directed backward and medialward and gives attachment to the tentorium cerebelli.
- The head shield is narrow, with two prominent pairs of spines directed backward (figures 3.13 and 3.14).
- It measures from 12 to 15 mm., and its arch is directed horizontally backward and lateralward; thus each semicircular canal stands at right angles to the other two.
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