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The human cervical spine is made up of seven vertebrae. In fact, nearly all mammals have seven cervical vertebrae, even giraffes.

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How many cervical vertebrae are there?

the first 7 vertebrae, the neck vertebrae, are considered to be cervical


The cervical spine is made up of how many cervical vertebrae?

The cervical spine is made up of seven cervical vertebrae. These are numbered(C1-C7) and are the smallest of the true vertebrae. The third through sixth cervical vertebrae have characteristics in common. The first, second, and seventh are considered special cervical vertebrae, and have different characteristics.


Transverse foramina are found in the?

Transverse foramina are found in the cervical vertebrae of the spine. They are openings on the sides of these vertebrae that allow passage of the vertebral arteries and veins which supply blood to the brain.


What has seven components that is unfused?

The spine is composed of seven unfused vertebrae in the neck region known as the cervical spine.


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A human has 12 thoracic vertebrae, located in the middle section of the spine between the cervical and lumbar vertebrae.


What joint is found in the back?

Pivot joints are found in the spine at the first and second cervical vertebrae. Plane joints/gliding joints are also found in the posterior aspect of the vertebrae.


What are the bones called in your spine?

The bones in your spine are called vertebrae. There are typically 33 vertebrae in the human spine, divided into five regions: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and coccygeal.


How meany total bones found in the human vertrabra?

There are normally 33 bones in the vertibral column.


How many vertebrae in the neck region?

There are 7 cervical (neck) vertebrae.Humans have seven cervical vertebrae.


How many cervical vertebrae are there in a normal adult?

In a human it is 7 vertebrae that make up the bones in the neck. Additional "factoids": Giraffes also have only 7 vertebrae in their necks/cervical spine, the difference is each one can be ten inches long! Swans can have as many as 25 vertebral bones in the neck and amphibians can have only one. There are 7 vertebra in the cervical region.


Each part of the spine?

The cervical bones (1-5) run from the base of the skull to the bottom of the neck, roughly. The thoracic vertebrae (1-12) run from the end of the cervical spine to the lumbar spine. The lumbar vertebrae (1-5) run from the end of the thoracic spine to the tailbone.


What kind of spine has 7 bones?

The cervical region of the spine contains 7 vertebrae. The best motion in this are is rotation. C1 (the atlas) and C2 (the axis) are specialized bones of rotation.