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Plate 4: Bones of the trunk.

Translated by: Ronald A. Bergman, PhD and Adel K. Afifi, MD, MS
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  1. The bones of the trunk with the left scapula, seen from the front.
  2. and 3.The first two cervical vertebra, Atlas and Axis, seen from the front and back.
  3. and 5.The first cervical vertebra, Atlas, seen from above and behind and from below.
  4. The second cervical vertebra, axis, seen from the front.
  5. This figure is of a cervical vertebra seen from the front.
  6. and 9.A thoracic (fig. 8) and a lumbar (fig. 9) vertebra.
Plate 4: Bones of the trunk.
Title Page Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 6 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 7 Figure 8 Lumbar vertebra The bones of the trunk with the left scapula, seen from the front