hyperapophysis Anat.
(-əˈpɒfɪsɪs)
[f. hyper- 6 + apophysis.]
‘A process of bone extending backward from the neural spine of one vertebra to that of another, or developed from the post-zygapophysis’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1886).
| 1872 Mivart Elem. Anat. ii. 45 It is possible..for the neural spine to send back a pair of processes (hyperapophyses), as in Galago. |
Hence hyperapoˈphysial a., of or pertaining to a hyperapophysis.