Labels:book | cookie cutter | door | sky OCR: ATLAS AND AXIS HE ATLAS AND AXIS are the The peg -like projection of the top two cervical vertebrae axis at the base of the picture, in your spine. This top view of slots into a notch in the atlas. these vertebrae shows the atlas This enables the skull to make in position on top of the axis. side-to-side movements Vertebral foramen Attachm Spinous ent process site for of axis muscles Contains spinal cord Facet of adas Area that articulates with the Notch of atlas base of the skull Into which projection Projection of axis of the axis fits Fits into notch in atlas proces p100 articulate
