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The axis has a dens, which provides a pivot for the atlas.
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The axis is the only vertebra with?
a dens
Where is the dens found in the body?
The dens is found on the second cervical vertebra only.
What type of movement occurs between the atlas and the dens of the axis?
There is rotation of head around the dens of the axis. Dens is actually derived from the body of the atlas vertebra.
Dens here provides a pivot for rotation of the first cervical vertebra?
Atlaswrong . the correct answer is axis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_(anatomy)) "It forms the pivot upon which the first cervical vertebra (the atlas), which carries the head, rotates."
What is the dens a part of?
Dens (anatomy): Dens is part of the neck, and is a bone (animal): A lair where wild animals house in (room): part of a house which is smaller than, but similar to the living room
What is the dens odontoid process?
Since the dens is part of the Axis vertebra (and project up in the first vertebra, the Atlas vertebra that supports the skull) it is called the Dens Axis
What vertebra has a dens?
2nd cervical vertebra (axis) has dens (also called odontoid process).
The axis is the only vertebra with?
a dens
Where is the dens found in the body?
The dens is found on the second cervical vertebra only.
What type of movement occurs between the atlas and the dens of the axis?
There is rotation of head around the dens of the axis. Dens is actually derived from the body of the atlas vertebra.
Head moved side to side first vertebra pivots around?
around the dens of the second vertebra. Is that is the full question?
When the head is moved from side to side the first vertebra pivots around the what of the second vertebra?
densThe Dens of the second Vertebrae.
Dens?
An anterior, vertical projection on the axis vertebra. Only C2 has this structure.
What does the first vertebra pivot around when head moves side to side?
dens
What is second vertebrae called?
The name of the second vertebrae is called the axis.
Why are pivot joints called pivot joints?
Pivot means to turn. A pivot joint turns around a ring. The best example is the ring of bone that the atlas vertebra makes and the "finger" of the dens vertebra. The joint allows us to turn our heads. The atlas holds the head. In mythology Atlas held the world on his shoulders. The dens is called this because it has a "tooth" like structure. (dens as in dental).
Dens here provides a pivot for rotation of the first cervical vertebra?
Atlaswrong . the correct answer is axis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_(anatomy)) "It forms the pivot upon which the first cervical vertebra (the atlas), which carries the head, rotates."
