Elements of osteology, or, The minute anatomy of the bones, intended for the use of students / by Henry Kemp Randell.

  • Randell, Henry Kemp.
Date:
1831
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    Those of the former existing between the atlas and occiput, between the articulating processes of the vertebrae themselves, and also between the transverse processes and the ribs ; whilst those of the latter are only to be found between the bodies of the ver- tebrae. The articulation however, between the fore-part of the ring of the atlas and the processus dentatus of the axis, is a spe- cimen of the second subdivision of the la- ^teral or rotatory gingiymus, which has re- ceived the distinguishing appellation of sin- gle, (vide page 18.J in contra-distinction to that of double, from the movement being performed at a single point. Motions of the Spine, In consequence of the immense number of joints between the different portions of the spine and intervention of the inter-ver- tebral substance, the vertebral column con- stitutes the common centre of the move- ments of the body; and, taken as a whole, the motions of which it is susceptible are very considerable. The degrees of motion however, vary with the forms of the differ-