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Title: Anatomy of the cat
Identifier: anatomyofcatrje00reig (find matches)
Year: 1991 (1990s)
Authors: Reighard, Jacob Ellsworth, 1861-1942; Jennings, H. S. (Herbert Spencer), 1868-1947
Subjects: Cats; Mammals
Publisher: (Austin, TX) : BookLab, Inc.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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12 THE SKELETON OF THE CAT cervical vertebrze are broader and thinner than those of the thoracic vertebr£e, while the vertebral arches and vertebral canal are larger (Fig. ii). The caudal end of each centrum is concave and looks dorsocaudad when the centrum is held with its long axis horizontal. The cranial end of the centrum is convex and looks v^entrocraniad when the centrum is hori- zontal. These peculiarities are more marked in the third vertebra than in the seventh. The spinous processes grow %.
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Fig. io.—Cervical Vertebr/e, Side View. a, spinous processes; 6, cranial articular processes; c, caudal articular facet; d, intervertebral foramina; e, transverse process proper; /, processus costarius; g, wing of the atlas; /i, dorsal arch of the atlas; ?', atlantal foramen. rapidly shorter as we pass craniad; the fifth, sixth, and seventh are directed dorsocraniad, the third and fourth dorsad. The caudal articular processes are situated at the junction of the radices and laminae; their facets (Fig. lO, r) look ventrocaudolaterad. The cranial articular processes also become more prominent than is the rule in the thoracic verte- brae ; they are borne at the junction of radix and lamina and have their facets (Fig. ii, /;) directed dorsomediad. The cranial and caudal articular processes of each side are joined by a prominent ridge which is most pronounced in the tliirtl, fourth, and fifth vertebrae. The characteristic feature of the cervical vertebrae is their transverse process, so called. In each of them it arises by two roots, one from the centrum and one from the arch.

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