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I am really confused about this. The spinous process is the part that sticks out in the back. Every vertebrae appears to have a spinous process to me. We are looking laterally which means the spinous process faces posterior and the vertebral body faces anterior, right?
If you look at this image in wikipedia below, the red C1 - what is that sticking out in the posterior of each vertabrae and in the first vertebrae - I thought those were the spinous processes? When I look in my textbook it labels the first vertabrae as C1. This is the lateral view so, you wouldn't see the vertebral arch protruding right and the dens faces superiorly not posteriorly, right?
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I keep looking at the Atlas, C1 of the cervical region. My notes and the book says there is no spinous process. I look at it laterally, and I see a spinous process. Am I getting something confused, why does it look like it has a spinous process laterally?