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How — and where — should we measure neural canal diameter?

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Date: 2025-11-14 00:14:41
Blog: Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
URL: https://svpow.com/2025/11/13/how-and-where-should-we-measure-neural-canal-diameter/

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Confession time: I have yet to find a satisfyingly regular and repeatable method for measuring neural canal diameters. A LOT of dinosaurian neural canals are not cylindrical but flare out on either end, like two trumpet bells set back-to-back. You can see a similar thing in this drawing of human vertebrae in mid-sagittal section from […]

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