codfish vertebrae

codfish vertebrae
a medical condition in humans characterised by an exaggeration of the concavity of the upper and lower end plates of the vertebrae, as demonstrated radiographically in various types of thinning of the bone mass

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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