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The vertebral column itself is limp and soft, the vertebræ only imperfectly formed and made of soft cartilage.

There the otter-cub killed her victim by severing the vertebræ immediately behind its gills.

Fig. 4, represents one of the lumbar vertebræ, (five in number,) which are immediately above the sacrum.

Fig. 3, is one of the dorsal vertebræ, twelve of which, form the central part of the spine.

The main injury was in the lumbar region over the upper lumbar vertebræ.