Manual of human osteology / by A. Francis Dixon.

Date:
1912
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Credit: Manual of human osteology / by A. Francis Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    bodies of the vertebrae. Except in the case of the fifth, and to a far less extent in the fourth (and very rarely in the third), the bodies of the vertebrae lumbales are usually not deeper in front than behind. Foramen intervertebrale Processus arttcularcs supenores Processus transversus Processus articulates inferioics Fig. 12.—Lumbar subdivision of the columna vertcbralis. Note the interlocking of the processufe articularcs. OS SACRUM. The os sacrum is the somewhat triangular mass of bone formed by the fusion of the five vertebrae sacrales. In the child the composite nature of the bone is quite obvious, and