Noun

• S: (n) vertebrate, craniate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
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• S: (n) rib, costa (any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates))
• S: (n) blood (the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets) "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"
• S: (n) ovary ((vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone)
• S: (n) endoskeleton (the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates))
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