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Parts of a Vertebra

Oblique view of cervical vertebra

Oblique view of cervical vertebra

The parts of a human vertebra.

This is an oblique view of cervical vertebrae. It shows the vertebral body and identifies its individual vertebra, from top to bottom: spinal cord, spinal nerve, nucleus pulpous, disc annulus, superior articular process, spinous process, posterior tubercle of transverse process, foramen trasnversium, and the anterior tubercle of transerve process.

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