Skeletal system
Vertebra T9
Vertebra thoracis IX
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Trunk, Back
- Part of
- Thoracic vertebrae
DescriptionUnreviewed
The ninth thoracic vertebra may have no demi-facets below.
In some subjects however, it has two demi-facets on either side; when this occurs the tenth doesn't have facets but demi-facets at the upper part.
The thoracic spinal nerve 9 (T9) passes out underneath it.
The xiphisternum (or xiphoid process of the sternum) is at the same level in the axial plane.
See: thoracic vertebrae.
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Muscle attachments
Muscles that insert here
Names
- Latin
- Vertebra thoracis IX
- English
- Vertebra T9
- French
- Vertèbre T9
- Spanish
- Vértebra T9
- Portuguese
- Vértebra T9