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Zygapophysis

A zygapophysis is processwhich sticks out of an end of a vertebrato lock with a zygapophysis on the next vertebra, to make the backbonemore stable. Each typical vertebra has 4 of them: two front (prezygapophysis) and two back (postzygapophysis), two left and two right. Its plural is "zygapophyses". Its origin is Greek????? = "yoke" (because it links two vertebrae) + ??? = "away" + ????? = "process",

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