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Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Exams of Anatomy

Michigan State University (MSU)Anatomy

How many total vertebrae in the verterbral column? correct answers 33 Number of Cervical verterba? correct answers 7 Number of Thoracic vertebra? correct answers 12 Number of Lumbar vertebra? correct answers 5 Number of Sacral vetebra? correct answers 5 Number of coccygeal vertebra? correct answers 4 What are the atypical cervical vertebrae? correct answers C1, C2, C7 What are the typical cervical vertebrae? correct answers C3-C6 Where are the spinous processes short in the cervical vertebrae? correct answers C3-C5 Where are the spinous processes short and bifid? correct answers C2-C6 What are the typical thoracic vertebrae? correct answers T2-T9

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Clinically Oriented Anatomy BACK
How many total vertebrae in the verterbral column? correct answers 33
Number of Cervical verterba? correct answers 7
Number of Thoracic vertebra? correct answers 12
Number of Lumbar vertebra? correct answers 5
Number of Sacral vetebra? correct answers 5
Number of coccygeal vertebra? correct answers 4
What are the atypical cervical vertebrae? correct answers C1, C2, C7
What are the typical cervical vertebrae? correct answers C3-C6
Where are the spinous processes short in the cervical vertebrae? correct answers C3-
C5
Where are the spinous processes short and bifid? correct answers C2-C6
What are the typical thoracic vertebrae? correct answers T2-T9
What are the atypical thoracic vertebrae? correct answers T1, T10-T12
Bifid spinous processes are more common in what two groups? Less common? (2
groups) correct answers whites and males; african americans and females
Motion occurs between the superior most 25 vertebrae. What is this joint called?
correct answers zygapophysial or facet joint
The facet joint is what type of joint? correct answers plane joint, synovial joint
What two things join together to form this joint? correct answers The superior and
inferior articular processes
What are the three things a vertebra consists of? correct answers vertebral body,
vertebral arch, and seven processes
Where do the spinal nerves emerge from? correct answers The intervertebral foramen
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How many total vertebrae in the verterbral column? correct answers 33 Number of Cervical verterba? correct answers 7 Number of Thoracic vertebra? correct answers 12 Number of Lumbar vertebra? correct answers 5 Number of Sacral vetebra? correct answers 5 Number of coccygeal vertebra? correct answers 4 What are the atypical cervical vertebrae? correct answers C1, C2, C What are the typical cervical vertebrae? correct answers C3-C Where are the spinous processes short in the cervical vertebrae? correct answers C3- C Where are the spinous processes short and bifid? correct answers C2-C What are the typical thoracic vertebrae? correct answers T2-T What are the atypical thoracic vertebrae? correct answers T1, T10-T Bifid spinous processes are more common in what two groups? Less common? ( groups) correct answers whites and males; african americans and females Motion occurs between the superior most 25 vertebrae. What is this joint called? correct answers zygapophysial or facet joint The facet joint is what type of joint? correct answers plane joint, synovial joint What two things join together to form this joint? correct answers The superior and inferior articular processes What are the three things a vertebra consists of? correct answers vertebral body, vertebral arch, and seven processes Where do the spinal nerves emerge from? correct answers The intervertebral foramen

What makes up the intervertebral foramen? correct answers The inferior and superior vertebral notches Cervical Vertebra form the skeleton of the _____ correct answers Neck What is the most distinctive feature of a cervical verterba? correct answers foramen transversarium- this permits verterbal arteries and veins passing through them, located by the transverse process What vertebra neither has a body or a spinous process? correct answers C1, the atlas What is the stongest verterba of the cervical verterba? correct answers C2, the axis What is the distinguishing feature of C2? correct answers Dens (latin: tooth) of the axis, which is a nub that projects superiorly from the body The transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae have what on them? correct answers Anterior and posterior tubercles What do they serve as attachment sites for? correct answers scalenes and levator scapulae What are the anterior tubercles of C6 called? correct answers carotid tubercles The spinous processes are short and bifid where? correct answers C2-C What vertebrae has lateral masses instead of a body correct answers C What on C1 extends from one lateral mass to the other? correct answers transverse ligament of the atlas What does this prevent, name 2 correct answers Anterior displacement of the atlas, also prevents posterior or horizontal displacement of the dens Where does C1's superior articular surfaces articulate? correct answers occipital condyles on either side of the foramen magnum The superior surface of the posterior arch has a wide groove for what (2 things) correct answers vertebral artery, C1 nerve Where does the atlas rotate on the axis? correct answers Superior articular facets of the axis The primary characteristic of the thoracic vertebrae is that they provide attachment points for what? What are theses attachment points called? correct answers ribs, costal facets

What is one of the most common injuries of the cervical vertebrae? correct answers Hangman's fx or fracture and dislocation of the axis. A Hangman's fx is what? correct answers A fracture of the vertebral arch of the axis at the pars interarticularis, which is the bony column formed by the superior and inferior articular processes of the axis What technical name for a fracture when there is a fx of the vertebral arch of the axis at the pars interarticularis? correct answers Traumatic spondylolysis of C Hangman's fx occurs as a result of what? correct answers hyperextension of the head on the neck In living people, the sacral hiatus is closed by membranes of the what? correct answers Sacrococcygeal ligament The sacral hiatus can be located inferior to what and is located between what? correct answers S4 spinous process or median sacral crest, sacral cornua What does the anesthetic act on when injected into the sacral hiatus? correct answers The S2-Co1 spinal nerves of the cauda equina Intervertebral (IV) discs are _______ cushions that serve as shock absorbers and allow o movement between adjacent vertebrae. correct answers fibrocartilaginous There are a total of how many discs? correct answers 23 There are no discs between what? correct answers C1-C2 and the coccyx The most inferior functional disc is between? correct answers L5 and S The discs are named and numbered according to the vertebrae _____ it. correct answers above The cervical NERVE ROOTS exit _____ the corresponding vertebral bone. correct answers ABOVE The above statement is true except for which spinal nerve? correct answers C All other spinal nerves exit _____ the corresponding vertebrae. correct answers BELOW The IV discs consist of what two things? correct answers Anulus Fibrosus and Anulus pulposus The anulus fibrosus is vascular and thinner where? correct answers posteriorly

The nucleus/anulus pulposus avascular and receive nourishment how? correct answers by diffusion from anulus fibrosus and vertebral body T/F The anulus fibrosus is responsible for the flexibility and resilience of the IV disc. correct answers FALSE, the anulus pulposus is responsible for the flexibility and resilience of the IV disc The vertebral bodies of the cervical discs have upward projections on the lateral margin that are called what? correct answers uncinate processes Uncinated processes will articulate with the body of the vertebrae above it as the IV disc ______. correct answers Degenerates Where do these uncovertebral joints develop? correct answers C3 (4) to C6 (7) These bone spurs cause neck pain, and may compress what two things? correct answers spinal nerve root and vertebral artery What is the zygapophysial join innervated by? correct answers The articular branches of the posterior rami of the spinal nerves. The atlanto-occipital joint is what type of joint? correct answers Condyloid The atlanto-axial joint is what type of joint? correct answers pivot The anterior longitudinal ligament prevents what? correct answers hyperextension Anterior longitudinal ligament extends from where to where? correct answers C1 to sacrum The posterior longitudinal ligament is located where? correct answers Inside the vertebral foramen on the posterior aspect of the vertebral bodies. The post. long. ligament runs from where to where? correct answers C2 to sacrum What does it help prevent? correct answers Posterior herniation of the nucleus pulposus What are the bands of elastic tissue that connect the laminae? correct answers Ligamentum flavum The ligamentum flavum prevents what? correct answers Flexion What ligament perseves the normal curvature of the spine? correct answers Ligamentum flavum