Showing the Spinal Dura Mater Exposed in situ. (Dorsal aspect.)

About this plate

Showing the Spinal Dura Mater Exposed in situ. (Dorsal aspect.). Posterior view of the spinal cord.

Region

spinal cord

View

posterior

System

peripheral nerves, bone, meninges, arteries

Focus

spinal dura mater, spinal nerve roots, spinal ganglia, spinal nerves

Structures labelled on this plate

• Foramen magnum
• Vertebral artery
• Transverse process of atlas
• Cervical nerve I
• First rib
• Thoracic nerve I
• Spinal dura mater
• Spinal ganglion
• Epidural cavity
• Anterior ramus
• Posterior ramus
• Spinal nerve
• Continuation of dura matter upon the nerve roots
• Posterior costotransverse ligament
• Costal process of lumbar vertebra
• Lumbar nerve I
• Sacrum (dorsal surface)
• Sacral nerve I
• Posterior ramus of sacral nerve I
• Anterior sacral foramina
• Continuation of spinal dura mater upon the roots of the sacral nerves
• Filum of dura mater (coccygeal ligament)
• Sacral canal
• Coccyx
• Coccygeal nerve

Source: After Morris's Human Anatomy (1918). Public domain (Morris's Human Anatomy, 1918), modernized rendering.