Human back - Muscles of the back

Human back - Skeletal structure of the back. The central feature of the human back is the vertebral column, specifically the length from the top of the thoracic vertebrae to the bottom of the lumbar vertebrae, which houses the spinal cord in its spinal canal, and which generally has some curvature that gives shape to the back. The ribcage extends from the spine at the top of the back (with the top of the ribcage corresponding to the T1 vertebra), more than halfway down the length of the back, leaving an area with ...

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Human back, Human back - Anatomy of the back, Human back - Skeletal structure of the back, Human back - Muscles of the back, Human back - Organs of the back, Human back - Surface of the back, Human back - Significance in human society

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