Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pleurapophysis \Pleu`ra*poph"y*sis\, n.; pl. {Pleurapophyses}.
   [NL. See {Pleura}, and {Apophysis}.] (Anat.)
   One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal
   element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or
   corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- {Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al},
   a. --Owen.