Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun transverse_process

1 sense of transverse process

Sense 1
transverse process -- (one of two processes that extend from each vertebra and provide the point of articulation for the ribs)
       => process, outgrowth, appendage -- (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process")