Skeleton of the Head and Neck  ( Side )

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Skeleton Horse Head
 
   

 

 

1.  Orbit

2.  Mandible ( Lower Jaw )

3.  Temporal Fossa

4.  Zygomatic Arch

5.  Poll

6.  Facial Crest

7.  Cheek Teeth

8.  Diastema

9.  Incisor Teeth

10. Nasomaxillary Notch

11. Atlas

12. Axis

13. 7th ( Last ) Cervical Vertebra

82. Dorsal Arch of Atlas

83. Wing of Atlas

84. Dens or Odontoid Process of Axis

85. Spinous Process of Axis

86. Reduced Spinous Processes of Cervical Vertibrae

87. Expanded Transverse Process of 5th Cervical Vertibrae

88. Intervertebral Foramina for Passage of Spinal Nerves and blood vessels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

 

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