Axial Skeleton (Vertebral Column)

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1. Pedicle 4. vertebral foramen

canal through which spinal cord

2. Intervertabral
passes
foramen
5. Transverse process

3. Lamina

6. spinous process (of

cervical vertebrae)
7. transverse foramen 10. Axis (C2)
(of cervical
vertebrae)

8. Bifid spine (of C2 - 11. dens

Axis) (odontoid
process)

process of the axis which passes through the

9. Atlas (C1)
vertebral foramen of the atlas
12. cervical
vertebrae

A set of 7 vertebrae
13. thoracic vertebrae 16. Superior facet (of
thoracic vertebra)

the second set of 12 vertebrae head of rib

14. spinous process (of 17. lumbar vertebrae
thoracic vertebrae)

long; sharp; projects inferiorly set of 5 vertebrae

15. Transverse facet 18. spinous process (of
(of thoracic lumbar vertebrae)
vertebra)

tubercle of rib Short; blunt; projects directly

posteriorly
19. Sacrum 22. ventral foramina of
the sacrum

5 fused vertebrae
23. dorsal foramina
20. sacral promontory

where nerves and blood vessels pass

Where the first sacral vertebrae bulges
24. median sacral crest
into pelvic cavity
(of sacrum)
21. superior articular
process of sacrum

posterior view
25. Coccyx

tailbone, 4 fused vertebrae