Caudal vertebra 21
Vertebra caudalis XXI
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 21 of the pig
Caudal vertebra 21 is a bone of the tail (tail), a single structure on the midline. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Vertebra caudalis XXI. 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 21 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 21
- Latin (NAV)
- Vertebra caudalis XXI
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the caudal vertebra 21
- What is the Latin name of the caudal vertebra 21?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the caudal vertebra 21 is called Vertebra caudalis XXI.
- Where is the caudal vertebra 21 of the pig?
- Caudal vertebra 21 is a bone of the tail (tail), a single structure on the midline.
See the caudal vertebra 21 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.
