How many cervical vertebrae are there?

There are seven cervical vertebrae. The common features of cervical vertebrae include lateral communication, large vertebral foramen, triangular articular process orientation approximately horizontal, transverse foramen, vertebral artery passing through, spinous process branching, and various characteristics of cervical vertebrae. For example, atlas generally has no vertebral body, axis has odontoid process, at the age of six and axis fusion, axis spinous process is the largest, the seventh cervical spinous process, especially long, can be touched behind, at the same time light tube has cone hole, its inner wall is the posterior wall of hook process, intervertebral disc and vertebral body, posterior lateral wall is articular process, joint medial part, patients in cervical spondylosis will show vascular compression, so show more serious cervical spondylosis.