You can identify this term with another common name, the backbone. It proves to be the essential support structure for the body. It begins at the base of our skull and ends at the pelvis. There are some other names for the spine, like a spinal column or a vertebral column. Here, you can find a column of 26 bones in an adult body. Of which 24 are vertebrae with cartilage, and the rest two are the coccyx and sacrum.

Some important regions of the spine are as follows :