A treatise on ligaments / By Bransby B. Cooper.

  • Cooper, Bransby Blake, 1792-1853.
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on ligaments / By Bransby B. Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIGAMENTS PROPER TO THE ATLAS. The ligaments which form the articulation between the atlas and the second cervical vertebra, or the vertebra den- tata, are first, the transverse ligament, which.is proper to the atlas; and secondly, the ligaments of the articular processes, which are common to all the vertebrae. The transverse ligament arises from a rough tubercle on the inner side of the articular process of the atlas, then forming an arch which encloses the odontoid process of the second cervical vertebra, it passes forwards to be inserted into the inner side of the opposite articular process. The middle fibres which are in contact with the dentiform process, are the strongest; and from this part two appendices issue, a superior and an inferior; the superior passing along the odontoid process, is lost just above its apex in the fibres of the common posterior ligament of the vertebrae; the inferior appendix arises from the inferior edge of the transverse ligament, passes downward in connection with the lower part of the odontoid process, and is also imperceptibly lost amid the fibres of the common posterior vertebral ligament. The transverse liga- ment, together with the appendices, form a cross ; between the anterior part of which and the odontoid process, is a