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Contents 1 Curvature of the spine picture 2 cervical vertebrae - movement of neck (and head) 3 Vertebrae in Animals 4 Merge proposal

[edit] Curvature of the spine picture

The picture demonstrating the curvature of the spine is very nice and colourful but the spinal column seems to be rather out of sync with the silhouette of the body. Surely C1 isn't that high up and surely the coccyx should be further down. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.193.156 (talk) 14:00, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] cervical vertebrae - movement of neck (and head)

made some changes to cervical vertebrae section. I know the article is about the vertebrae, but thought it appropriate to make reference to the joints and establish them as providing the movement, which also allowed for links to same. For instance, the atlanto-occipital joint includes the occipital condoyles, which have as much to do with 'up and down' movement (no doubt there is a more formal term for this movement -if found will provide) of the skull as the atlas. Similarly for the axis and inferior atlas within the atlanto-axial joint. I included 'for the most part' to caveat that other cervical joints play a lesser part in the movements stated, without getting into all the details that are or should be covered in the associated linked articles. (e.g., I think rotation of the head is continued by lateral/elliptical movement of the occipital condyles upon the atlas within the atlanto-occipital joint? - hope to look into entire presentation in the future, although looking into and editing the entire presentation of a topic within wiki is often a daunting taskJauntymcd 17:15, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vertebrae in Animals

I came here looking for vertebrae in general, not vertebrae in humans. This page totally needs a disambiguation link at the least; and possibly a name change. The latter would then necessitate some new redirects, I think. Probably quite a bit of finagling that I'm not capable of.

- Misha

216.254.12.114 (talk) 03:07, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Good thoughts, so I added classification section in the hope that we could integrate universal vertebral applicability as apposed to a purely human centered article. --AngrySci (talk) 06:08, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal

This article seems to need to be merged with the Vertebral column one, which obviously has very similar subject matter and even several illustrations in common.

At the risk of veering slightly off topic, my inital complaint was similar to Misha's: that the available links and redirects make it hard to find out about backbones from a generic, non-human, or zoological point-of-view (anyone know where that material is located?). Thus some links will need to be adjusted too, but a merge is tantamount to a name change, so that probably goes without saying. Regardless, it seems that this major piece of redundancy needs to be addressed first.

Personally I'm no kind of anatomist (nor have I that kind of editing experience), so I'm not planning to take it on.  ; ) Mrnatural (talk) 05:33, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the merge suggestions with a redirct.DoctorDW (talk) 16:47, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I have to agree as well. The Vertebra article as it is now is sort of redirecting readers to related articles while mostly delivering information about the spine in general and, on the other hand, Vertebral column is giving almost as much information about individual vertebrae. IMHO, Wikipedia should have a vertebra article, but at present it is mostly doubling the information in Vertebral column.

/ Raven in Orbit (Talk | contribs) 08:52, 22 September 2008 (UTC)