For Providers -- Atlas of Human Anatomy

A thoracic (fig. 8) and a lumbar (fig. 9) vertebra.

Translated by: Ronald A. Bergman, PhD and Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
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Thoracic vertetra Lumbar vertebra

a) Body.
b) Arch.
c) Vertebral notch (forms an intervertebral foramen for spinal nerves and branches of spinal arteries).
d) Spinous process.
e) Transverse process.
f) Joint surface for a rib tubercle.
g) Superior oblique process.

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