11673 IUPAC Gold Book - cervical vertebra 10.1351/goldbook.11673 11673 current 1 Any of seven vertebrae that provide strength and structure to the cervical spine and support the head, allowing for its rotation and flexion. cervical spine https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/11672 vertebrae https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/12163 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 856 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11673/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11673/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11673/plain Citation: 'cervical vertebra' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11673 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-14T17:32:31+00:00