the neural spine in ventral view with anterior to the top of the page;B, the left neural arch pedicel in dorsal view with anterior to the top; andC, the right dorsolateral margin of the cotyle in oblique posterior dorsolateral view with dorsomedial to the top....
I’m gonna geek out for a sec on the developmental underpinnings of the denticulate ligaments and the vertebrae they’re associated with. And to do that, we have to orient ourselves to the various bits sticking out of the spinal cord and how they relate to the vertebral column. Here’s ...
innermost, sitting intimately on top of the spinal cord and spinal nerve roots, is the pia mater, or “tender mother” In mammals the space between the dura mater and the bony walls of the neural arch is filled with epidural fat. This isn’t unhealthy fat, this is fat used as packing...