cervical vertebra in dogs

A vertebra that is located in the cervical region of the vertebral column. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the cervical vertebra is

A vertebra that is located in the cervical region of the vertebral column. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the cervical vertebra is

It sits in the neck and back, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the cervical vertebra connects to

The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of cervical region of vertebral column and neck.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the cervical vertebra. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as cervical vertebrae and vertebrae cervicales. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002413, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cervical region of vertebral column and neck.
• A kind of: bone of dorsum, dorsal region element, neck bone, skeletal element and trunk or cervical vertebra.
• Attaches to: levator scapulae muscle.
• subtype: mammalian cervical vertebra 3, mammalian cervical vertebra 4, mammalian cervical vertebra 5, mammalian cervical vertebra 6 and mammalian cervical vertebra 7.
• inserts into: erector spinae muscle group and semispinalis cervicis.
• composed of: bone tissue.
• contains: bony part of cervical vertebral arch.
• originates from: scalenus medius.

Questions

Where is the cervical vertebra?

It sits in the neck and back, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the cervical vertebra connect to?

Part of: cervical region of vertebral column and neck.

Is the cervical vertebra the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.