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Usage examples of vertebrae.

Finally, at the bottom of the spine are four buttonlike remnants of vertebrae that once formed part of a tail (when the animals ancestral to man had tails).

The first seven vertebrae are the cervical vertebrae of the neck region.

Beneath the cervical vertebrae are twelve thoracic vertebrae of the chest region, and under each of these passes a pair of spinal nerves, so that there are twelve pairs of thoracic nerves.

These are the coccygeal vertebrae, and there is one final pair of coccygeal nerves.

They are outside the bony vertebrae, and not inside as is the gray matter of the spinal cord and the ganglia of the posterior root.

These structures are the vertebrae, and for this reason the subphylum is called Vertebrata (vur'tih-bray'tuh) and its members commonly referred to as the vertebrates.

The vertebrae of the spinal column are essentially a series of bony rings cemented together by cartilage, and through the center of those protecting rings runs the spinal cord.

The clearest evidence of segmentation in the adult human is the repeated vertebrae of the spinal cord (one to each segment) and the repeating line of ribs attached to twelve of them.

The nervous system also shows the existence of segmentation, and does so most clearly in the repeated and regular emergence of pairs of spinal nerves from between vertebrae all down the spinal column.

The first pair makes its way out between the skull and the first vertebra, the second pair between the first and second vertebrae, the third pair between the second and the third vertebrae, and so on.

And since there are five lumbar vertebrae in the region of the small of the back, there are five pairs of lumbar nerves.

If the spinal column and the spinal cord it contained were of the same length, then one would expect the segments of the cord to run even with the vertebrae, and each successive nerve would just run straight out, horizontally.

When anesthesia of the lower sections of the body is desired, the injection of anesthetic is made between the lumbar vertebrae, and never higher.

It's important to remember that the spine is not a solid column, but twenty-two separate vertebrae stacked on top of each other.

The lumbar, or lower back, vertebrae are actually so large as to extend almost halfway into the lower abdomen.