He stood beside Azhdeen's lowered head and scratched the smooth hide between the eyes, careful to avoid the bony spines streaking back from the brow.

Julie stroked it with a moistened finger and a small tremor ran along Sue's bony spine.

These two developments made swimming easier, as the bony spine was now more resistant to the pressure caused by the S movements made while swimming.

I perch on a bony spine of wicker and prop hands on knees.

Then a long row of black bony spines broke the surface briefly, heading toward Blade.

The Kreegan warlord is a large blue creature that runs around on all fours and has six bony spines sticking out of its back.

The fins are supported by bony spines known as rays.

The bony spine helps protect the spinal cord.

Little more than a bony upper spine with skin wrapped around it.

This suggested a fluid collection inside the bony spine but outside the tough sac that contains the spinal cord, in an area called the epidural space.