The spinous process on C7 is distinctively long and gives the name vertebra prominens to this vertebra.
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Normally, as the patient bends, the spinous processes will move apart, so your fingers will move apart also.
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There are seven processes projecting from the vertebra; a "'spinous process "', two transverse processes, and four articular processes.
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For official measurement, the spinous process of the fifth thoracic vertebra may be identified by palpation, and marked if necessary.
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A major part of a vertebra is a backward extending spinous process ( sometimes called the neural spine ) which projects centrally.
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The spinous process is long, triangular on coronal section, directed obliquely downward, arising from the lamina and ending in a tuberculated extremity.
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It lies deep to the trapezius muscle and can be palpated as a firm round muscle mass just lateral to the cervical spinous processes.
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In 1884, Austrian injected cocaine between the spinous processes of the lower lumbar vertebrae, first in a dog and then in a healthy man.
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It arises by a thin aponeurosis from the spinous processes of the thoracic and upper two or three lumbar vertebrae, and from the supraspinal ligament.
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From its atlas, and to the spinous processes of the cervical vertebrae, and forms a septum between the muscles on either side of the neck.
