Patent ID: 7862618

Claim:
A vertebral implant for insertion between vertebral bodies in a patient, the vertebral implant comprising: a first end member and a second end member, each end member including a bone contact surface to contact an endplate of one of the vertebral bodies, an opposing surface, and a perimeter surface extending between the bone contact surface and the opposing surface, the end members further comprising a spacer recess and a distractor recess extending inward from the perimeter surface and the opposing surface, the end members being separated by a gap; and a spacer member disposed within the gap between the end members and having opposing ends that engage the spacer recesses of the first and second end members; the implant including a longitudinal axis that extends through the first and second end members and the spacer, the distractor recess including a greater width measured perpendicular to the longitudinal axis than the spacer recess with the distractor recesses extending outward beyond the spacer recess in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and open into the gap in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis.