Fused spines of the first to third cervicals nearly vertical, rather high, and obtusely pointed.
Fused spines of the first to fourthcervicals bent backward; the mass broad antero-posteriorly and rounded at the tip.
On the fourth and fifth cervicals the processes are short and small; on the sixth, long and broad, and directed downward.
As far as the processes of the cervicals are concerned, these are known to be extremely variable in all cetaceans.
The first to fourth cervicals resemble those of the Newport skeleton, but the fourth entirely separate.
In the vertebral column the middle cervicals are long and narrow, with the postzygapophyses directed much outwardly and separated by a very deep channel, and the posterior face of the centrum low and wide.
In the vertebral column the cervicals are short with very stout centra, the prezygopophyses in the middle region being nearly horizontal and separated from one another by a wide channel.
In the vertebral column the atlas alone is free, the remaining cervicals being fused.
In the first place, as has been mentioned in the definition of the family, all the cervicals are separate and individually of some length.
The transverse processes of the fourth to the sixth cervicals are, as a rule, double.
Neobalaena has forty-three vertebrae, of which the cervicalsare all fused.
In the skeleton it is interesting to note that the second and third cervical vertebrae are so close together that there can be no free movement; interesting because in Dipus the cervicals are actually ankylosed.
The cervicalsare fused into one mass, more or fewer being free in other Ziphioids.
Two or three anteriorcervicals united, the rest usually free.
The three anterior cervicals welded, the rest free and well developed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cervicals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
