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(ak′sĭs)

(ak′sēz″)
pl. axes [L. axis, axle, axis]

1. A real or imaginary line that runs through the center of a body or about which a part revolves.
2. The second cervical vertebra (epistropheus). It bears the odontoid process (dens), about which the atlas rotates.
SYN: SEE: odontoid vertebra

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Venes, Donald, editor. "Axis." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Taber's Online, www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737158/all/axis.

Axis. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. 23rd ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737158/all/axis. Accessed February 19, 2019.

Axis. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary. Available from https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737158/all/axis

Axis [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2019 February 19]. Available from: https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737158/all/axis

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