Assertion: intervertebral disc | /r/MadeOf | three basic components
Facets:
value: apart from the atlas
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Situated in spaces between adjacent vertebral bodies, apart from the atlas (C1), axis (C2) and the coccyx, each intervertebral disc consists of three basic components: a centrally positioned nucleus pulposus, two cartilaginous endplates which flank the nucleus pulposus inferiorly and superiorly, and a peripheral annulus fibrosis surrounding it (Fig. 1-