VERTEBRAL COLUMX 



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A TYPICAL CERVICAL VERTEBRA. 



The Sixth Cervical may he taken as the type ; it shows the greatest 

 development of all the peculiar characters (Fig. 23). 



The body of the sixth cervical is wide and much flattened from 

 the dorsal to the ventral side. The ends are bevelled, the cephalic 



FIG. 23. 



Spine. 



Lamina 



Cephalic Articular Process. 



Vertebral Canal. 



Three Branches of Transverse \ 

 Process. J 



A CERVICAL VERTEBRA, ANTERIOR OR CEPHALIC ASPECT. 



at the expense of the ventral surface, the caudal at the expense of the 

 dorsal surface (Fig. 27). The ventral surface is flat and keeled (Fig. 

 24). It forms the floor of a deep fossa whereof the walls are the 



transverse processes. 



FIG. 24. 



Cephalic Articular Process. 



TJiree Branches 

 of 

 Process. 



SIXTH CERVICAL VERTEBRA, VENTRAL ASPECT. 



The pedicles have small cephalo-catidal and greater dorse-ventral 

 diameters. Their dorsal ends are directed toward the head, and some- 

 what laterally from the middle line. They form an angle of about 



