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body which looks forward is very globular, and the corresponding cavity 
in the posterior surface is of a cup-like shape (Fig. 12, 16), but larger 
than the head, in order that it may receive the inter-articular cartilage 
which intervenes. 3d. The spinous processes (Fig. 12, 3, 4,5,6) are very 
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usually lencthened from before backwards and downwards, and are each 
pierced with a hole for the passage of the vertebral artery. 5th. The four 
articular or oblique processes (Fig. 12, 15, 15, 15) project greatly, and have 
an inclination from above downwards, backwards and inwards. Each 
fossa for this purpose is large and deep. 
PECULIARITIES OF CERTAIN CERVICAL VERTEBRA. ~ 
THE FIRST CERVICAL VERTEBRA (counting from the head) has received 
the name of at/as in human anatomy, from its surmounting all the others ; 
end though in quadrupeds there is no longer the same reason for the 
