why there r 8 cervical nurves when there r 7 cervical vertebrae??

Question

in human body the number of spinal nurves are equal to there respective vertebrae ..as thoracic,lumbar,sacral& coccygeal
they r 1,2 ,5 ,5 & 1 in number respectively ...then why there is an only acception abt cervical??

Answer 1

Cervical vertebrea are in the neck and so there is 1 out the very top between the 1st vert. and the skull base. Best wishes

Answer 2

No. There is just one pair of spinal nerves per vertebrae. Each nerve may have a double root structure but there aren't two separate nerves.