VEETEBEAL COLUMN 



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points almost directly toward the tail. The arterial canal is large, 

 and is continued forward as a groove on the body beyond the base 



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of the transverse process. 



FIG. 34. 



Neural Spine. 



Odontoid Process. 



Cephalic Articular Process. Arterial Canal. 

 AXIS, SIDE yiEW. 



Caudal Articular Process. 



Transverse Process. 



The pedicles are about as long in a cephalo-caudal line as the 

 pedicles of the third cervical ; they are, however, higher. They 

 are almost at right angles to the bone in their caudal part, but slope 

 toward the middle line in their cephalic part. The neural canal is 

 high, but narrower than the canal in any of the other cervicals (Figs. 



, 35). 



FIG. 35. 



Spinous Process- 



Surface 

 of Lamina. 



Cephalic Articular Process, 



Odontoid Pro- 



,; xx. 



Surface of B<.i<li/. 



Venous Channel. 

 L().\(iITri)IXAL VERTICAL SECTION OF AXIS. 



The intervertebral notches are well marked. The cephalic 

 articular process is situated on the cephalic edge of the body, and is 

 continued dorsally on the ventral part of the pedicle. It is a pear- 

 shaped [swelling with a narrow dorsal end and a wide ventral end. 

 Its articular surface is gently convex, more strongly in the dorso- 



