The thoracic vertebrae
Vertebrae thoracicae
Thirteen bones, one for each pair of ribs. The tenth is the turning point of the back: its spine stands upright, and the spines on either side of it lean towards it.
- Region
- Trunk
- Members
- 13
- With a page
- None
How they differ along the set
What changes from one end of the series to the other, which is most of what there is to know about any one of them.
- Thirteen, each carrying a pair of ribs.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the vertebral column
- The spines of the first ten slope backwards; the spine of the tenth, the anticlinal vertebra, is vertical.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the vertebral column
- The spines of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth point forwards.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the vertebral column
- On the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth the cranial articular processes are large.Reighard & Jennings 1901, the vertebral column
The members
In order along the set. Any one of them can be singled out in the model above, with the picker beneath it.
- Thoracic vertebra 1Vertebra thoracica I
- Thoracic vertebra 2Vertebra thoracica II
- Thoracic vertebra 3Vertebra thoracica III
- Thoracic vertebra 4Vertebra thoracica IV
- Thoracic vertebra 5Vertebra thoracica V
- Thoracic vertebra 6Vertebra thoracica VI
- Thoracic vertebra 7Vertebra thoracica VII
- Thoracic vertebra 8Vertebra thoracica VIII
- Thoracic vertebra 9Vertebra thoracica IX
- Thoracic vertebra 10Vertebra thoracica X
- Thoracic vertebra 11Vertebra thoracica XI
- Thoracic vertebra 12Vertebra thoracica XII
- Thoracic vertebra 13Vertebra thoracica XIII