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What is the rounded processes on the skull that articulate with the atlas?
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Occipital condyles
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What bone's articulate with the atlas?
The atlas articulates with the axis. The atlas is the first cervical vertebra and articulates with the skull superiorly, and the axis (the second cervical vertebra) inferiorly. The joint between the atlas and axis, dubbed the atlanto-axial joint, is responsible for the increased range of motion of the skull (turning your head left/right, and nodding up/down).The order of the atlas and axis can be remembered because, beginning from the skull, these two cervical vertebrae are in alphabetical order (aTlas then aXis).
What is the uppermost vertebrae called as?
The first back bone is called as atlas. The Atlas is said to have lifted the earth. This atlas 'lifts' the skull.
What bone in the skull form a joint with a atlas?
occipital
What joint connects the atlas to occipital condyle?
The occipital condyles allow the head to turn side to side.
What bone of the skull articulates with the atlas?
the occipital bone
Can you skull be dislocated?
Yes. The skull sits on the top vertebra of your spine, called the atlas. If there is a strong enough trauma to the head, the skull can be moved off, or dislocated, from the atlas. Unfortunately, with enough force this causes fatal damage to the spinal cord/brain. But if there is a smaller dislocation, it can be survived.
Referring to the skull what is the atlas?
It is the the most superior (first) cervical vertebra of the spine.
What cervical vertebrae is the atlas on?
The atlas is the first cervical vertebra (C1). It is named this because it is a large ring and holds the base of the skull. Atlas carried the "world on his shoulders" and the name fit.
What does the vertebral column articulate with?
It articulates with each vertebra. Plus the occipital bone of the skull and the 12 pairs of ribs.
What bone of the skull has two heads?
the mandible. the mandible is part of the skull and contains two heads which articulate with the temporal bone at a point called the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone
What vertebrae attaches the skull to the vertebral column?
the two vertebra that attach the skull to the spine are the axis and atlas also referred to as C1 and C2
What is the rounded part of your skull called?
The Cranium
