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Excerpt from a 1930's test on chiropractic technique from Chamblee Chiropractic:
Five vertebrae have special names. The first Cervical is called Atlas ; the second Cervical, Axis ; the seventh Cervical is commonly known as Vertebra Prominens on ac- count of its long and large spinous process, although this long process belongs to the sixth Cervical or first Dorsal instead in 35% of all cases; the large, irregularly fusiform vertebra just below the Lumbars and between the ilia is called the Sacrum ; and the smaller one below it, the Coccyx. The latter is occasionally missing. Each vertebra except the Atlas is composed of a body and an arch; the arch is made up of two pedicles, short, thick plates of bone extending outward and backward from the postero-lateral surface of the body nearer its upper than its lower border, two laminae, thin plates of bone extending backward and inward from their union with the pedicles and joining behind to form the spinous process, and has pro- jecting from it seven processes, two transverse, one spinous, and four articular, two of which are superior and two in- ferior. The foramen enclosed by the body, pedicles, and laminae is called the neural or vertebral foramen and the canal formed by the connection of these foramina and com- pleted by the ligaments which unite the arches is called the neural, vertebral, or spinal canal. It contains the spinal cord with its membranes and the roots of the spinal nerves. By means of the four articular processes each true vertebra except the first articulates with its fellows above and below. The body of the vertebra is its largest portion and is joined to its fellows by fibrocartilaginous disks which are sufficiently elastic to permit some torsion and compression.
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Posted by: Michael | 09/27/2010 at 05:48 AM