cervical vertebra

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 human body.

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 28 typed relationships for it, across 8 kinds of connection. part of cervical region of vertebral column, dorsum 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, dorsum and neck.
• A kind of: bone element, organ, skeletal element and vertebra.
• Attaches to: levator scapulae muscle and nuchal ligament.
• contains: anterior tubercle of transverse process of cervical vertebra, cervical vertebral arch, cervical vertebral foramen, posterior tubercle of transverse process of cervical vertebra, postzygapophysis of cervical vertebra and prezygapophysis of cervical vertebra, and 2 more.
• subtype: mammalian cervical vertebra 3, mammalian cervical vertebra 4, mammalian cervical vertebra 5, mammalian cervical vertebra 6 and mammalian cervical vertebra 7.
• originates from: scalene muscle, scalenus anterior and scalenus medius.
• inserts into: erector spinae muscle group and semispinalis cervicis.
• composed of: bone tissue.

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, dorsum and neck.

Is the cervical vertebra the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.