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What is the vertebral formula of the dog?

What is the vertebral formula of the cat?

What makes up the vertebral arch?

What extremity of the body of the typical vertebra is convex?

What does the ventral crest of vertebrae serve as?

What part of atlas articulates with the occpital condyles?

What part of atlas articulates with axis?

What ligament holds the dens against the fovea dentis of the atlas?

What ligament(s) attach the dens to the basioccipital bone between occipital condyles?

What ligament connects the spine of the atlas and the arch of the axis?

Where would you do a lumbar CSF tap?

What ligaments hold the heads of the left and right ribs into place?

What ligament courses between the axis and T1 vertebrae and is not present in the cat?

What ligament is the continuation of the nuchal ligament?

What two ligaments course longitudinally along dorsal and ventral bodies of the vertebrae?

What ligament courses between the lumbar transverse processes?

What ligament courses dorsally between vertebral arches?