spinal column

     

The Vertebral column (singular: vertebra) are the inividual irregular bones that make up the spinal column (aka ischis) — a flexuous and flexible column common to all Vertebrates.

Trivia about spinal column

  • Craniosacral therapy aims to restore flow with pressure on the skull & this column
  • The fishlike amphioxus has a structure called a notochord which in humans develops into this column
  • Australopithecus has the foramen magnum, the hole in the skull for this, facing down rather than back as it did earlier

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