There is one on each side of every vertebrae in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. … A transverse process fracture … usually results from a sudden extreme twisting or side-bending movement.

" (The transverse process) was a tough one to learn in medical school, but if you think about our spine, it's a bunch of bones that are stacked up, right?" Dr. Kohli said, via MSN.

MRI of the cervical spine showed high grade vertebrostenosis at C7 due to a space-occupying process within the axially and sagittally enlarged vertebrum C7, including the dorsal vertebral arch ...

While a transverse process fracture is technically an injury to the spine, it is not an injury to the spinal cord — the two are nowhere near one another (relatively speaking).

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While a transverse process fracture is technically an injury to the spine, it is not an injury to the spinal cord — the two are nowhere near one another (relatively speaking).