Landmark · Skeletal system
Posterior tubercle of transverse process
Tuberculum posterius processus transversi
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Neck, Trunk, Back
- Landmark on
- Vertebra C4
DescriptionUnreviewed
Each transverse process of the cervical vertebrae consists of an anterior and a posterior part.
These two parts are joined, outside the foramen, by a bar of bone that exhibits a deep sulcus on its upper surface for the passage of the corresponding spinal nerve.
The posterior part, the true transverse process, springs from the vertebral arch behind the foramen and is directed forward and laterally; it ends in a flattened vertical tubercle, the posterior tubercle.
See also 'Anterior tubercle of transverse process'
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Names
- Latin
- Tuberculum posterius processus transversi
- English
- Posterior tubercle of transverse process
- French
- Tubercule postérieur du processus transverse
- Spanish
- Tubérculo posterior del proceso transverso
- Portuguese
- Tubérculo posterior do processo transverso