spinous

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These muscles bring together the spinous and transverse processes of each consecutive vertebra.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

On the posterior sacrum, the median sacral crest is derived from the fused spinous processes, and the lateral sacral crest results from the fused transverse processes.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The nuchal ligament is attached to the cervical spinous processes and extends upward and posteriorly to attach to the midline base of the skull, out to the external occipital protuberance.

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The median sacral crest is formed by the fused vertebral spinous processes and the lateral sacral crest is derived from the fused transverse processes.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

These exquisitely tender points are often found where Trousseau places his neuralgic point apophysaire, namely, over, or very near, the spinous processes of the vertebr�.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.