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Cervical spines of human and non-human cadavera were injected with suitable media and studied. The arterial blood supply to the odontoid process forms a constant pattern of three groups of vessels from two sources, the anterior and posterior vessels from the vertebral artery and the cleft perforating vessels from the carotid artery.
Schiff et al. (Mon,) studied this question.