L4.8.1.3.2: Typical Vertebrae

• TYPICAL VERTEBRAE

  ● Vertebral bones that share common features
• PARTS OF A TYPICAL VERTEBRAE APPLICABLE TO THORACIC AND LUMBAR

  • Body or centrum
  • Vertebral arch
  • Vertebral foramen
  • Transverse processes
  • Spinous processes
  • Superior articular process
• Body or centrum

  • weight bearing part
• Vertebral arch

  • formed from the joining of all posterior extensions of the bone
• Vertebral foramen

  • canal which the spinal cord passes through
• Transverse processes

  • lateral projections from the vertebral arch
• Spinous process

  • single projection arising from the posterior aspect of the vertebral act
• Superior articular process

  • paired projection lateral to the vertebral foramen
  • Allows a vertebra to form joint to adjacent vertebrae