Vocabulary
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| Vertebral Column or Spine | extends from the skull which it supports to the pelvis where it transmits the weight of the body to the lower limbs.
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| Vertebrae | before birth, the spine consists of 33 separate bones.
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| Intervertebral Discs | the individuals are separated by pads of flexible fibrocartilage that cushion the vertebrae and absorb shocks while allowing the spine flexibility.
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| Herniated Dicss | drying of the discs, along with a weakening of the ligaments of the vertebral column, predisposes older people.
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| Primary Curvatures | spinal curvature in the thoracic and sacral regions
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| Secondary Curvatures | they develop some time after birth
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| Body or Centrum | disclike, weight-bearing part of the vertebra facing anteriorly in the vertebral column.
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| Vertebral Foramen | arch formed from the joining of all posterior extensions.
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| Transverse Processes | two lateral projections form the vertebral arch.
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| Spinous Pricess | single projection arising form the posterior aspect of the vertabral arch.
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| Superior and Inferior Articular Processes | paired projections lateral on the vertebral foreman, allowing a vertebra to form joints with adjacent vertebrae.
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| Cervical Vertebrae | form the neck region of the spine.
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| Atlas | the superior surfaces of its transverse processes contain large depressions that receive the occipital condyles of the skull.
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| Axis | acts as a pivot for the rotation of the atlas above.
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| Dens | acts as the pivot point.
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| Thoracic Vertebrae | are all typical larger than the cervical vertebrae and are distinguished by the fact that they are the only vertebrae to articulate with the ribs.
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| Lumbar Vertebrae | have massive blocklike bodies.
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| Sacrum | is formed by the fusion of five vertebrae.
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| Coccyx | is formed form the fusion of three to five tiny, irregularly shaped vertebrae.
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