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the cervical region, twelve in the dorsal, five in the lumbar, five in the sacral, 

 and four in the coccygeal. (Plate CIII.) Their number is sometimes increased 

 by an additional vertebra in one region, or the number may be diminished in 

 one region, the deficiency being supplied by an additional vertebra in another. 

 These observations do not apply to the cervical portion of the spine, the number 



PLATE CVI. 



RECTUS CAPITIS POSTICUS MINOR 



TRANSVERSE PROCESS OF ATLAS 



LEVATOR ANGULI SCAPULAE 

 ORIGIN 



SPLENIUS COLLI 

 .INSERTION 



LEVATOR ANGULI SCAPULAE 

 SPLENIC COLLI 

 SCALENUS MEDIUS .INSERTION 



LEVATOR ANGULI SCAPULAE 

 SPlfNIUS COLLI 

 SCALENUS MEDIUS 



COMPLEXUS 



LEVATOR ANGULI SCAPULAE 

 SPLENIUS COLLI 

 ■SOMETIMES 

 SCALENUS MEDIUS 



COMPLEXUS AND 

 MULTIFIDUS SPINAE 



SCALENUS MEDIUS 

 SCALENUS POSTICUS 

 COMPLEXUS AND TRACHELO 

 MASTOID. MULTIFIDUS SPINAE 



SCALENUS MEDIUS 

 SCALENUS POSTICUS 

 COMPLEXUS AND TRACHELO- 

 MASTOID. MULTIFIDUS SPINAE 



SCALENUS MEDIUS 



SCALENUS POSTICUS j&j£* ' ,' 



COMPLEXUS AND TRACHELO- 

 MASTOID. MULTIFIDUS SPINAE 



MULTIFIDUS SPINAE 

 lAND TO EACH SPINOUS PROCESS AS HIGH AS THE SECOND 



RECTUS CAPITIS LATERALIS 



SUPERIOR OBLIQUE 

 - INFERIOR OBLIQUE 



RECTUS CAPITIS POSTICUS MAJOR 



THE POINTER CROSSES THE ORIGIN 



OF THE INFERIOR OBLIQUE 



SEMISPINALS COLLI 

 CERVICAUS TRANSVERSUS 



SEMISPINALS COLLI 



CERVICAUS TRANSVERSUS 

 CERVICAUS ASCENDENS 



SEMISPINALS COLLI 



CERVICAUS ASCENDENS 



CERVICAUS TRANSVERSUS 



CERVICAUS TRANSVERSUS 

 CERViCALiS ASCE\0ENS 



- 3 COLLI 



LEVATOR COSTAE ORIGIN 

 ACCESSORIUS INSERTION 



INTERSPINALES 



TRAPEZIUS. RHOMBOIDEUS MINOR. SERRATUS 

 POSTICUS SUPERIOR. SPLENIUS. COMPLEXUS 



Postekiob View uf Cervical Vertebrae. 



of bones forming which is seldom incr< ased or diminished. 



The peculiar vertebra' are the first cervical or atlas, SE< OND CERVU al 

 or AXIS, and THE SEVENTH CERVICAL Or VERTEBRA PROMINENS. (Plates XCV- 



XCVI-XCVII.) The great modifications in the form of the atlas and axis arc 

 d( signed to admit of nodding and rotary movements of the head. 



The peculiar vertebra* in the dorsal region are the first, ninth, tenth, 

 Eleventh, and twelfth. (Plate CVII.) In the lumbar region the fifth is 



