 Hey everybody, Dr. O here. Let's look at the structure of a typical vertebrae. So a typical vertebrae is going to have a vertebral body there in the front. It's going to have a vertebral arch, which I'll come back to in just a moment, and it's going to have seven different processes coming off of it. So the body is going to be the anterior portion of the vertebrae that supports most of your body weight. Because of this, the vertebral bodies get bigger as you travel down the spine. So cervical vertebral bodies are smaller than thoracic, which are smaller than lumbar. I think that makes sense. The adjacent vertebral bodies are going to be connected by an intervertebral disc. I'll cover that in a separate video. Then you have the vertebral arch. That's going to be the part that wraps around this vertebral foramen, which is all behind the vertebral body. A vertebral arch is going to be made of your two pedicles and then your two lamina. So they form that, they form that opening, the vertebral foramen, which is where your spinal cord is. So that's the body, that's the vertebral arch. And then we're going to have our seven processes. So you can see some of them are very easy to see. You see there on the back, the pointy portion coming right out of a vertebrae is called the spinous process. You can feel that if you're pressing on your own spine, especially if you're very lean. You have the two transverse processes on the side, much harder to feel, but you can. You've got to dig through muscles. So those are going to be very important muscle attachment points. So that one spinous process and your two transverse processes. And then we're going to have your superior and inferior articular processes. These form what are called your facet joints. So the facet joints are going to be these, the joints that are on the back of the spine. They play a very large role in movement. All right. So I think that's, I think it's plain to know about typical vertebrae. We'll do a separate video where we talk about what makes cervical and thoracic and lumbar vertebrae different. I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.