352 DISSECTION OF THE THORAX. 



The flat ligaments and the intervertebral disks of the bodies, and the 

 ligaments of the neural arches, will be less tight on the side to which the 

 face is directed than on the other. 



Dislocation of one vertebra from another without fracture seldom occurs, 

 in consequence of the way in which the inferior pair of articular processes 

 are placed behind the superior of the next following bone, like scales. In 

 the cervical region, where the articular surfaces are more horizontal, sim- 

 ple displacement may occasionally take place. 



