Caudal vertebra 18
Vertebra caudalis XVIII
Progressively simpler toward the tip of the tail: the arch and processes disappear and the last ones are little more than rods of bone.
- System
- Bone
- Region
- Tail
- Sides
- Single, on the midline
Measured on the specimen
What the caudal vertebra 18 is in contact with in the model itself, with the share of the other structure’s surface it covers. A contact is not always a joint: bones that simply lie against one another are in this list too.
- Vertebra caudalis XIX19%
- Caudal vertebra 1711%
Measured on the left side.
Terminology
- English
- Caudal vertebra 18
- Latin (NAV)
- Vertebra caudalis XVIII
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
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