1
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| Junction between ossification centers of body and neural arch |
2
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| Intervertebral foramen (opened) |
3
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| Posterior intercostal artery VI |
4
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| Dorsal branch posterior intercostal artery VI |
5
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| Spinal branch posterior intercostal artery VI |
6
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| Radicular branch of spinal branch posterior intercostal artery |
7
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| Branch of spinal branch to vertebral body |
8
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| Spinal branch posterior intercostal artery VII (inferior branch passing downward to communicate with a superior branch from the eighth intercostal artery) |
9
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| Radicular branch of posterior intercostal artery VIII (note variation in size of this and the radicular branch at level of sixth vertebra) |
10
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| Spinal branch posterior intercostal artery VIII (branch arching upward to communicate with seventh intercostal artery medial to pedicle of vertebra) |
11
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| Intervertebral disc Th. IV - V |
12
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| Body of vertebra Th. V (pointer on nutrient foramen) |
13
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| Communicating arch between opposite spinal branches of intercostal arteries |
14
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| Pedicle (arch of vertebra) Th. VI |
15
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| Anterior spinal artery |