Superior costal facet
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| A thoracic vertebra. | |
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| Peculiar thoracic vertebræ. | |
| Latin | fovea costalis superior |
| Gray's | subject #22 102 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | f_15/12377275 |
The superior costal facet (or superior costal fovea) is a site where a rib forms a joint with the top of a vertebra.
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general structures: body of vertebra, vertebral arch (pedicle, lamina, vertebral notch), foramina (vertebral, intervertebral), processes (transverse, articular, spinous) cervical vertebrae: C1 (anterior arch, posterior arch, lateral mass), C2 (dens), C7, posterior tubercle, foramen transversarium thoracic vertebrae: costal facets (superior, inferior, transverse) lumbar vertebrae: accessory process, mammillary process sacrum/coccyx: pelvic surface (anterior sacral foramina, dorsal surface (posterior sacral foramina, median sacral crest, medial sacral crest, lateral sacral crest), lateral surface, base, sacral hiatus |
