neural arch n the cartilaginous or bony arch enclosing the spinal cord on the dorsal side of a vertebra called also vertebral arch
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one of the cartilaginous structures surrounding the embryonic spinal cord, formed by the dorsad growth of the dorsolateral arcualia; it is the primordium of the vertebral arch. Cf. hemal a.Medical dictionary. 2011.