thoracic vertebra
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one of the vertebra between the cervical vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae
Key facts
- Latin
- vertebrae thoracicae
- Mesh
- D013904
- Ta98
- A02.2.03.001
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
32,966 papers- Thoracic-vertebra fracture with spinal epidural hematoma in patient with ankylosing spondylitis.Asian journal of surgery · 2024
- Fourth thoracic vertebra as landmark for depth of right internal jugular vein catheterization in infants.Scientific reports · 2022
- Sexual dimorphism of the twelfth thoracic vertebra for sex determination in the Central Thai population.Journal of forensic and legal medicine · 2024
- Thoracic vertebra fixation with a novel screw-plate system based on computed tomography imaging and finite element method.Computer methods and programs in biomedicine · 2020
- Sparganosis of a thoracic vertebra misdiagnosed as bone metastasis from lung cancer.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2023
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Encyclopedic overview
In vertebrates, thoracic vertebrae compose the middle segment of the vertebral column, between the cervical vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae. In humans, there are twelve thoracic vertebrae of intermediate size between the cervical and lumbar vertebrae; they increase in size going towards the lumbar vertebrae. They are distinguished by the presence of facets on the sides of the bodies for articulation with the heads of the ribs, as well as facets on the transverse processes of all, except the eleventh and twelfth, for articulation with the tubercles of the ribs. By convention, the human thoracic vertebrae are numbered T1–T12, with the first one (T1) located closest to the skull and the others going down the spine toward the lumbar region.
General characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “thoracic vertebra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.