Description: Second cervical vertebra highly adapted to bear weight and yet remain mobile coapt with Axis in holding weight of our skulls Death in judicial hanging occurs due to fracture of the Odentoid process in the center of this vertebra called in medical parlance as the hangmans fracture A biological marvel machine Part of my effort to preserve for posterity public domain Classic human Anatomy images Vectorized by the Author
By: kephaliancosmos
Date: 2016-06-02
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Axis Human second cervical Vertebra or Spine sourced from Openclipart is licensed under CC0 1.0
* Note: Date might not match original source and might be an educated guess.