Caudal vertebra 20

Vertebra caudalis XX

  • Bone
  • Tail
  • Single, on the midline
  • Pig

Progressively simpler toward the tip of the tail: the arch and processes disappear and the last ones are little more than rods of bone.

About the caudal vertebra 20 of the pig

Caudal vertebra 20 is a bone of the tail (tail), a single structure on the midline. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Vertebra caudalis XX. You can turn it above, see it in place in the tail of the pig, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.

Measured on the specimen

What the caudal vertebra 20 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.

Measured on the left side.

Terminology

English
Caudal vertebra 20
Latin (NAV)
Vertebra caudalis XX
Status
A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

Questions about the caudal vertebra 20

What is the Latin name of the caudal vertebra 20?
In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the caudal vertebra 20 is called Vertebra caudalis XX.
Where is the caudal vertebra 20 of the pig?
Caudal vertebra 20 is a bone of the tail (tail), a single structure on the midline.

See the caudal vertebra 20 inside the whole pig.

Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the pig 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.

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