THE V] 





The bod) Fig 

 tical compact bone. [| ; n 

 surface markedly convi 

 a posterior surface which i 

 one or more lai ricnt f< i 



the spinal foramen foramen 

 the body and forms froi a half to ihr. 

 the body on each side is b 

 a notch upon both its upper and 

 Fig. . thi • i of conti 



superior one of the lower vertebr 



.ous process 



trims i crse process 



Superior 

 articular - 

 process. 





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FlG. I- — A wrt. 





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rates with the spinal canal. The s 

 inferior one the deeper. 



The processes of the vertebra 

 of articulation with neighboring vert< 

 (Fig. i), which serve as points ol att 

 four articular pro, ess« », ' erior ai 



are correspondingly named. I )i th< 

 the transverse process< - are | aired. 



THE CERVU 



Of the seven cervical vertebrae, tl 

 or axis (epistropheus), .-how marl 

 tory" vertebrae, in contradistin< 



The general cliarac: 



