1.The knobby excrescences at the left side of this vertebral column are due to degenerative osteoarthritis. This is the pronounced "lipping" of the vertebral bodies.
8.In between the two sides of bones, you have the vertebral column and the vertebral column here is fused together and it forms what we call the sacrum.
9.Here we can look and see the vertebral column, the last three to five vertebrae that comprise the little funky thing that looks like a cuckoo's beak that's known as the coccyx.
11.It sits on top of the diaphragm, which is the main muscle that helps with breathing, behind the sternum - or breastbone, in front of the vertebral column, squished in-between two lungs, and is protected by the ribs.
12.This Broadway franchise formed the vertebral column of the New York transit system; with it as a basis, the operators formed the Metropolitan Street Railway Company in 1893, commonly known as the " Metropolitan" .
13.The 33 irregular bones in your vertebral column start with your atlas vertebra — the one that holds up your skull, and is named for the Greek god Atlas, who held the world on his shoulders as a punishment.