Transverse costal facet

The transverse costal facet (or transverse costal fovea) is one of the costal facets, a site where a rib forms a joint with the transverse process of a thoracic vertebra.

Transverse costal facet
Peculiar thoracic vertebræ.
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Identifiers
Latinfovea costalis transversalis
TA98A02.2.03.004
TA21062
FMA10440
Anatomical terms of bone

References

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  This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 102 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

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