ARTICULATIONS. 



attached to the front of the discs and the margin of the bodies, 

 the fibres varying in length. [263] 



Posterior Common Ligament. This is a vertical band on the 

 back of the bodies, attached to their margins and the discs; 

 it is much wider over the discs than the centre of the bodies, 

 forming dentations. [263] 



Capsular Ligament. A thin but complete capsule, with a 

 synovial membrane, connects the articular processes. [263] 



Ligamenta Subflava. This is a layer of yellow elastic fibres 

 running from the front of a lamina, just above its lower bor- 

 der, to the back of the lamina below ; it extends from the cap- 

 sule to the spine, where it joins its fellow. [263] 



Interspinous Ligaments. These are obliquely interlacing 

 fibres, running from the tips of two adjacent spines to their op- 

 posing margins, and extending from base to tip. [263] 



Supraspinous Ligaments. These are longitudinal bands of 

 fibres, in continuity with the preceding, connecting the tips 

 of the spines. [264] 



Intertransverse Ligaments. These are vertical fibres con- 

 necting the opposing margins of adjacent transverse proc- 

 esses. [264] 



Costo-central. These are ginglymoid joints, between the 

 heads of the ribs and the bodies of the vertebrae. Each has a 

 complete capsule, and a synovial membrane in each compart- 

 ment, [269] 



Stellate or Anterior Costo-vertebral Ligaments. These are 

 three fasciculi on the front of each capsule, radiating from the 

 head of the rib ; the middle fasciculus is attached to the inter- 

 vertebral disc, and the upper and lower ones to the adjacent 

 margins of the vertebrae next the disc. The middle fasci- 

 culus is absent in joints where the rib does not touch an inter- 

 vertebral disc. [269] 



Interarticular Ligaments. These are short fibres, within each 

 capsule, connecting the crest, on the head of the rib, with the 

 disc, and dividing the joint into two compartments. It is 



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