Description
The inferior articular facets are the smooth, flat, anteroinferiorly facing articular areas on the inferior articular processes of the axis (second cervical vertebra). They articulate with the corresponding superior articular facets of the third cervical vertebra, forming zygapophyseal joints.
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Second Cervical Vertebra
The second cervical vertebra has a vertebral body with a superiorly projecting odontoid process that articulates with a concave facet on the anterior arch of C1 to form the atlantoaxial articulation.
