Name

Interspinous Ligament

Pronunciation

(in-ter-spi-nos lig-a-ment)

Notes

Several fine fibrous membranes that extend from one vertebral spinous process to the next. They extend obliquely from the yellow ligaments ventrally to the supraspinous ligament dorsally, and contain white fibrous and yellow elastic tissue. They are poorly developed or lacking in the cervical region.