centra
Americannoun
noun
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Yellen, speaking a week after the Fed delayed a long-anticipated rate hike, said she and other Fed policymakers do not expect recent global economic and financial market developments to significantly affect the centra bank's policy.
From Reuters
The centra of the cervical and dorsal vertebrae have peculiar, S-shaped articular surfaces, and they interlock tightly.
From Scientific American
When the vertebrae are free their centra articulate with each other by complicated joints, exhibiting four types.
From Project Gutenberg
All are of the coelacanth type, having Y-shaped neural and haemal arches, without centra.
From Project Gutenberg
The cartilage is hard and semi-transparent, the notochord jelly-like, least at the centres of the centra, and at a maximum intervertebrally.-
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