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How do the superior and inferior articular process of the atlas differ from the same processes on a typical vertebra?
The surface of the superior articular will work right above the inferior surface in a vertebra. This is not true in the atlas.
What superior articular process of the sacrum articulate?
The inferior articular process or facet of the vertebra above.
What is a zygapophysis?
A zygapophysis is an articular process of a vertebra.
What surface articulates Inferior process of the superior thoracic vertebrae?
There is no inferior process on any vertebrae, thoracic or not. There is an inferior articular facet. The inferior articular facet would articulate with the superior articular facet of the vertebrae just superior to it.
What are two accessory processes of the lumbar vertebrae?
the transverse process and the articular process also spinous process
Provides levers for the muscles to pull against?
superior articular process
What cartilage articulates with another bone or bone process?
Articular cartilage
Does the atlas bone have spinous process?
No it doesn't. The atlas is the first cervical vertebra and the only one with no spinous process.
Where are the apophyseal joints located?
The apophyseal joints are synovial joints in the vertebral column, between the superior or cranial articular process of one vertebra and the inferior or caudal articular process of the vertebra directly above it. See the link below:
What is a large concave or rounded articular prominence of a bone called?
A process....
Where did the odontoid process come from developmentally?
from the atlas
A rounded knob that articulates with another bone is called a?
A "head". For example, the head of the humerus or head of the femur.
