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What are the common features of a typical vertebra?
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The features include the centrum, the Verbral foramen,the Trasverse processes, the Spinous process,and Superior or articular processes.
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What is the centrum?
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It is a dislike, wieght-bearing part of the vertebra facing the vetebral column.
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What is the verbral arch?
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Its an arch from the joining of all posterior extensions from the vertebral body.
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What is the vertebral foramen?
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It is a canal through which the spinal cord passes.
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What are the transverse processes?
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They are the two lateral projections froma a vertebrae.
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What is the spinous process?
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Its a single projection arising from the posterior aspect fo the vertebral arch.
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What are the superior and inferior articular processes?
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They are paired projections lateral to the vertebral foramen,allowing a vertebra to form joints with adjacent vertebrae.
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What is the cervical vertebrae?
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It is first seven bones of the vertebral column reaching from neck to the spine.
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What is the Atlas?
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Its the fist cervical vertebra, and it articulates with the occipital bone of the skull and the second cervical vertebra.
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What is the Axis?
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Its the second cervical vertebra, and it has vertical projections called the dens which are found around where the atlas rotates.
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