Thoracic vertebra 18
Vertebra thoracica XVIII
One of the eighteen vertebrae of the chest, each carrying a pair of ribs; their tall spines form the withers.
About the thoracic vertebra 18 of the horse
Thoracic vertebra 18 is a bone of the body (trunk), a single structure on the midline. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Vertebra thoracica XVIII. You can turn it above, see it in place in the body of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
Terminology
- English
- Thoracic vertebra 18
- Latin (NAV)
- Vertebra thoracica XVIII
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the thoracic vertebra 18
- What is the Latin name of the thoracic vertebra 18?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the thoracic vertebra 18 is called Vertebra thoracica XVIII.
- Where is the thoracic vertebra 18 of the horse?
- Thoracic vertebra 18 is a bone of the body (trunk), a single structure on the midline.
See the thoracic vertebra 18 inside the whole horse.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the horse around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
