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LABORATORY MANUAL OF HUMAN ANATOMY 



LIGAMENTS OF VERTEBRAL COLUMN AND SKULL 

 (LIGAMENTA COLUMNAE VERTEBRALIS 

 ET CRANII). 



Remove all muscles from the spinal column and posterior 

 part of the bones of the skull and study the following : 



(a) Joints of the lower five cervical vertebrae. 



(aa) Intervertebral fibrocartilages (fibrocartilagines interverte- 



b rales), 

 (aaa) Fibrous ring (annulus ftbrosus). 



FIG. 123. 



Pars basilaris os. occip. 



Lig. apicisdentis | 



Mem. atlanto-occipitalis ant. 

 Bursa 



Caps, artic. of the articulatio 

 atlanto-epistrophica 



Lig. atlanto-epistrophicum ant. .... . 



Lig. longitudinale anterius .*- 



Lig. longitudinale posterius 

 __. Supra-odontoid synovial cavity 

 Memb. tectoria 

 .... Lig. cruc. atlantis (superior limb) 



Lig. trans, atlantis 



. Synovial cavity of the lig. 

 trans, atlan. 



Bursa 



Lig. cruc. atlan. (inferior limb) 



Epistropheus 



VAVy^ 



Sagittal section through the articulationes atlanto-occipitalis and atlanto-epistrophica. 

 .From Pomer et Charpy, Traite" d'Anat. hum., Paris, 1899, 2 ed., t. i. p. 814, Fig. 799.) 



(aab) Pulp-like nucleus (nucleus pulposus). What is the 

 relation of this to the chorda dorsalis of the 

 embryo ? 



(ab) Yellow ligaments (ligamenta ftava) (0. T. ligamenta sub- 

 flava). 



