a. Anat. and Zool. [f. VERTEBR-A + ARTERIAL a.] Of or belonging to a vertebra and an artery; vertebro-arterial.
1884. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 139. The series of these foramina is called the vertebrarterial canal.
1902. Cunningham’s Text-bk. Anat. (1906), 75. The vertebrarterial foramen … is traversed by the vertebral artery and vein in the upper six vertebræ.
