Title: Cervical vertebrae – Wikipedia
Summary: This page provides information about the cervical vertebrae, which are the seven vertebrae closest to the skull in the spine. It describes their numbering, general characteristics, and extraordinary features.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebra
Title: Vertebra – Wikipedia
Summary: This page provides information about the vertebrae, including the cervical vertebrae. It describes the anatomy of the vertebrae, their clinical significance, and their variation in different animals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebral_column
Title: Vertebral column – Wikipedia
Summary: This page provides information about the vertebral column, including the cervical vertebrae. It describes the different regions of the vertebral column, the number of vertebrae in each region, and the ligaments involved in holding the vertebrae together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(anatomy)
Title: Atlas (anatomy) – Wikipedia
Summary: This page provides information about the atlas, which is the most superior cervical vertebra in the spine. It describes the function of the atlas, its naming, and its specialization to allow a greater range of motion than normal vertebrae.
Citations:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_vertebrae
In tetrapods, cervical vertebrae (sg.: vertebra) are the vertebrae of the neck, immediately below the skull. Truncal vertebrae (divided into thoracic and lumbar vertebrae in mammals) lie caudal (toward the tail) of cervical vertebrae. In sauropsid species, the cervical vertebrae bear cervical ribs. In lizards and saurischian dinosaurs, the cervical ribs are large; in birds, they are small and completely fused to the vertebrae. The vertebral transverse processes of mammals are homologous to the cervical ribs of other amniotes.[citation needed] Most mammals have seven cervical vertebrae, with the only three known exceptions being the manatee with six, the two-toed sloth with five or six, and the three-toed sloth with nine.
| Cervical vertebrae | |
|---|---|
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 A human cervical vertebra | |
| Details | |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | vertebrae cervicales |
| MeSH | D002574 |
| TA98 | A02.2.02.001 |
| TA2 | 1032 |
| FMA | 9915 |
| Anatomical terms of bone | |
In humans, cervical vertebrae are the smallest of the true vertebrae and can be readily distinguished from those of the thoracic or lumbar regions by the presence of a foramen (hole) in each transverse process, through which the vertebral artery, vertebral veins, and inferior cervical ganglion pass. The remainder of this article focuses upon human anatomy.