Vertebral arch
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| Vertebral arch | |
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| A typical thoracic vertebra, viewed from above. (Vertebral arch is the bottom half.) | |
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| A cervical vertebra. (Vertebral arch is the bottom half.) | |
| Latin | arcus vertebrae |
| Gray's | subject #20 96 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | a_58/12150809 |
The vertebral arch (or neural arch) is the posterior part of a vertebra.
It consists of a pair of pedicles and a pair of laminae, and supports seven processes:
- four articular processes
- two transverse processes
- one spinous processes
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general structures: body of vertebra, vertebral arch (pedicle, lamina, vertebral notch), foramina (vertebral, intervertebral), processes (transverse, articular, spinous) cervical vertebrae: C1 (anterior arch, posterior arch, lateral mass), C2 (dens), C7, posterior tubercle, foramen transversarium thoracic vertebrae: costal facets (superior, inferior, transverse) lumbar vertebrae: accessory process, mammillary process sacrum/coccyx: pelvic surface (anterior sacral foramina, dorsal surface (posterior sacral foramina, median sacral crest, medial sacral crest, lateral sacral crest), lateral surface, base, sacral hiatus |
