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Spine showing thoracic scoliosis

GC.10798

Spine showing thoracic scoliosis The preparation is the thoracicolumbar spine and the pelvis, showing deformity of the vertebrae. From an adult female. The right half of the first to sixth thoracic vertebrae has been removed after sagittal section. A sinistroconcave thoracicolumbar scoliosis has the maximum of curvature between the centra of the eleventh and twelfth thoracic and rotation carries the vertebral spinous processes to the left. The centra of the vertebrae involved are diminished vertically in proportion to the degree of concavity. The distal lumbar and the proximal thoracic spinal segments show slight compensatory dextroconcavities.

Nineteenth century, early