1st cervical vertebra (C1)-atlas

Articulation: - articulates with the occipital bone via the occipital condyles. - rotates around the dens of the axis. Notes: - named for the Titan of Greek mythology Atlas who carried the heavens on his shoulders

Related

1st cervical spinal nerve (C1); suboccipital nerve occipital condyle

Specific

lateral mass of atlas superior articular (facet/surface/pit) of atlas transverse ligament of the atlas; Lauth ligament; transverse atlantal ligament

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999