Tags: Anatomical Structure, Ligament.

The posterior atlantoaxial ligament is a broad thin membrane attached above to the lower border of the posterior arch of the atlas; below to the upper edges of the laminæ of the axis. It supplies the place of the ligamenta flava and is in relation behind with the Obliqui capitis inferiores.

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