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In the appendicular skeleton, one is mostly concerned with the diarthrodial synovial joints. While this type of joint is also found in the axial skeleton (the facet (a.k.a. aphophyseal) joints and portions of the sacroiliac joints), there are also many amphiarthrodial joints which are not synovial (the intervertebral disc joints)....

Cervical radiculopathy is a dysfunction of a nerve root of the cervical spine. The seventh (C7; 60%) and sixth (C6; 25%) cervical nerve roots are the most commonly affected. In the younger population, cervical radiculopathy is a result of a disk herniation or an acute injury causing foraminal impingement of an...

BMJ. 1993 July 17; 307(6897): 172–173. Effect of spinal osteophytosis on bone mineral density measurements in vertebral osteoporosis. T Masud, S Langley, P Wiltshire, D V Doyle, and T D Spector Full text available

A COMPARISON BETVWEEN THE INCIDENCE IN SASKATCHEWAN, V CANADA, AND BRISTOL, ENGLIAND BY 0O. D. BERESFORD Cancer Clinic, Regina, Saskatchewan (RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION SEPTEMBER 9, 1952)
The condition usually referred to as osteoarthritis of the spine is extremely common and is usually diagnosed radiologically by the presence of spurs of bone arising from adjacent margins of vertebral bodies. The term...

Ann Rheum Dis. 1985 February; 44(2): 113–120. Palaeopathology of spinal osteophytosis, vertebral ankylosis, ankylosing spondylitis, and vertebral hyperostosis. J Rogers, I Watt, and P Dieppe
Five hundred and sixty intact skeletons and several thousand disarticulated vertebrae have been examined with special reference to spinal fusion. In period they ranged from a 21st dynasty...