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THE ARTICULATIONS OF THE TRUNK 



Interspinous ligament 

 Lig. interspinale 



Spinous process of the 

 twelfth dorsal vertebra 



Supraspiuous ligament.'.' 

 Lig. supraspinale 



Epiphysis of the spinous pro- 

 cess of the first lumbar 

 vertebra 



Ligamenta guonaVK 

 Ligg. flava 

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Body of the twelfth dorsal vertebra 

 Corpus vertebrae thoracalis XII. 



Joint of the articular processes / 

 Articulatio intervertebralis 



Intervertebral foramen 



Foramen intervertebrale 



Layer of hyaline cartilage 



Stratum cartilagineum 



Epiphysis of the vertebral 

 body 



Anterior common ligament 



Lig. longitudinale anterius 



Nucleus 

 pulposus 



Annulus 



fibrosus 



of the inter- 

 - vertebral 

 disc 



Posterior common ligament 



Lig. longitudinale posterius 



Intervertebral disc 



Fibrocartilago inter- 

 vertebralis 



FlG. 398. FlBROCARTILAGINES INTERVERTEBRALES, INTERVERTEBRAL DlSCS. LlGAMENTA FLAVA, 

 OR SUBFLAVA. LlGAMENTA INTERSPINALIA, INTERSPINOUS LIGAMENTS. LlGAMENTUM SUPRA- 

 SPINALE, SUPRASPINOUS LIGAMENT. (MEDIAN SECTION THROUGH THE TWELFTH DORSAL 

 AND THE FIRST LUMBAR VERTEBRAE, LEFT HALF.) 



Ligamenta columnee vertebralis The ligaments of the vertebral column. 



