vertebral bone 1
The first vertebral bone in the vertebral column. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the vertebral bone 1 is
The first vertebral bone in the vertebral column. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the vertebral bone 1 is
It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the vertebral bone 1 connects to
The atlas records 24 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. a kind of vertebra.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the vertebral bone 1. 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 C1, C1 vertebra, atlas, atlas (CI), atlas [C I] and atlas vertebra, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001092, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: vertebra.
- contains: anterior arch of first cervical vertebra, anterior tubercle of first cervical vertebra, arch of atlas, cervical vertebra 1 arcus anterior, groove for vertebral artery of first cervical vertebra and inferior articular facet of first cervical vertebra, and 13 more.
- connects: atlanto-axial joint and atlanto-occipital joint.
- contributes to morphology of: cervical vertebra 1 arcus anterior.
- inserts into: spinalis muscle.
Questions
Where is the vertebral bone 1?
It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the vertebral bone 1 connect to?
A kind of: vertebra.
Is the vertebral bone 1 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.