Transverse costal facet

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Transverse costal facet
A thoracic vertebra.
Peculiar thoracic vertebræ.
Gray's subject #22 102
Dorlands/Elsevier f_15/12377266

The transverse costal facet (or transverse costal fovea) is a site where a rib forms a joint with the transverse process of a vertebra.

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Spine edit

general structures: body of vertebra, vertebral arch (pedicle, lamina, vertebral notch), foramina (vertebral, intervertebral), processes (transverse, articular, spinous)

cervical vertebrae: C1 (anterior arch, posterior arch, lateral mass), C2 (dens), C7, posterior tubercle, foramen transversarium

thoracic vertebrae: costal facets (superior, inferior, transverse)

lumbar vertebrae: accessory process, mammillary process

sacrum/coccyx: pelvic surface (anterior sacral foramina, dorsal surface (posterior sacral foramina, median sacral crest, medial sacral crest, lateral sacral crest), lateral surface, base, sacral hiatus