Sacrovertebral angle

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Sacrovertebral angle
Lumbar vertebrae are yellow, and sacrum is green.
Gray's subject #24 106
Dorlands/Elsevier a_41/12135983

The sacrum is curved upon itself and placed very obliquely, its base projecting forward and forming the prominent sacrovertebral angle when articulated with the last lumbar vertebra.

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