Anatom3DVertebral bodies
Corpora vertebrarum · Těla obratlů
Skeleton
Looks like
The round drum at the front of each vertebra, carrying the load, with a disc above and below.
What it does
Stacks into the weight-bearing column of the spine.
Keeping it well
Calcium, vitamin D and resistance exercise; these are the bones that crumple silently in osteoporosis.
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Axial spondyloarthritis
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Kyphosis and Scheuermann's disease
- Multiple myeloma
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Sarcoma
- Scoliosis
- Spina bifida & neural tube defects
- Spinal cord injury
- Spondylolisthesis
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency