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Joints of the Spine. 



Processus articularis superior 

 Processus transversus 



Fovea costalis transversal is ^ 



Lig. costotransversarium 



anterius 

 Lig. capituli costae radiatum 



Ligament um longitudinale anterius 



Corpus vertebrae 



Fibrocartilago 

 intervertebralis 



212. Spinal column with ligaments, from in front. 



The ligamentum longitudinale anterins descends on the anterior and 

 lateral surfaces of the bodies of the vertebrae. It begins as a narrow tough band at 

 the tuberculum pharyngeum ossis occipitalis (see Figs. 215 and 221), is fastened to 

 the tuberculum auterius atlantis, then goes to the anterior surface of the epistropheus 

 and thence to all of the bodies of the vertebrae as far as the upper part of the facies 

 pelvina ossis sacri, where it becomes lost in the periosteum. From the epistropheus on, 

 it becomes ever broader as it passes downward, is intimately connected with the vertebral 

 bodies and with the fibrocartilagines intervertebrales and is divisible more or less distinctly 

 into three stripes, a broader one in the middle and a narrower one on each side. On 

 the lumbar spine there arise from it the (tendinous) crura of the pars lumbalis dia- 

 phragmatis (lumbar portion of the diaphragm). 



