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a figure of a man used as a supporting column

the 1st cervical vertebra

a figure of a man used as a supporting column

the 1st cervical vertebra

A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.

One who sustains a great burden.

The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

A collection of maps in a volume

A volume of plates illustrating any subject.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.

A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; - called also atlas folio.

A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n.

One who sustains a great burden.

The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

A collection of maps in a volume

A volume of plates illustrating any subject.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India.

A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; - called also atlas folio.

A collection of maps bound in a volume.

First cervical vertebra, articulating with the occipital bone and rotating around the odontoid process of the epistropheus, or axis.

First cervical vertebrae.

A collection of maps.

A volume of maps or the like.

A size of paper, 26 by 33 (34) inches.

Myth. Son of Iapetus and Clymene; leader of Titans in war against Jupiter; condemned, when defeated, to bear the heavens on his shoulders.

A collection of maps in a volume; work which presents a subject in a tabular form, as, a historical atlas; a large-sized paper; a rich satin stuff, manufactured in the East; the first vertebra of the neck, which supports the head atlas-wise.

A collection of maps bound together; the top joint of the neck-bones, or that which supports the head.

The first cervical vertebra articulating with the skull.

The first cervical vertebra; so called from its supporting the whole weight of the head, as Atlas is said to have supported the globe on his shoulders. Chaussier calls it Atloide. This vertebra in no respect resembles the others. It is a kind of irregular ring, into which, anteriorly, the processus dentatus of the second vertebra is received. Posteriorly, it gives passage to the medulla spinalis.

First cervical vertebra.

The first cervical vertebra, consisting of an anterior and a posterior arch and two lateral masses. The body, instead of being consolidated with it, constitutes the odontoid process of the second vertebra upon which it turns in rotation of the head. The a. articulates above with the condyles of the occipital bone, allowing the nodding movements of the head. [Gr.]

n. A collection of maps in a volume; –large drawing paper; –the first vertebra of the neck.

A collection of maps; a large square folio; sometimes the supporter of a building; a rich kind of silk.