| name | fact |
| Anterior Longitudinal Ligament | front of bodies |
| Anterior Longitudinal Ligament | Anterior Atlantooccipital ligament |
| PLL | axis to occiput |
| PLL | membrane tectoria ligament |
| Ligamentum flava | lamina to lamina |
| Alar | check ligament |
| Apical Dental | from the tip of the dens to the rim of the occiput |
| Denticulate | toothed, anchors the spinal cord to the bony verebral canal |
| Ligamentum flava | lamina to lamina |
| Interspinous | thickest in lumbars |
| suprapinous | Ligamentum nuchae |
| Transverse Ligament | Holds the dens in the fovea dentes of atlas |
| Cruciform | Body of C2 to the occiput |
