pleuroid Anat.
(ˈplʊərɔɪd)
[f. pleuro- + -oid.]
Baur's name for either element of the pleural arch of a typical vertebra; a pleurapophysis.
| 1887 Amer. Nat. Oct. 945 The spines connected with the neuroids ought to be called, as before, neural spines; those connected with the pleuroids, pleural spines. |