A Typical Vertebrae

Question 1

Arch forms from joining of posterior extensions

Answer 1

Vertebral arch

Question 2

Bridge

Answer 2

Pedicle

Question 3

Connects processes

Answer 3

Lamont

Question 4

Two parts of vertebral arch

Answer 4

Pedicle and lamina

Question 5

Canal for spinal cord to pass

Answer 5

Vertebral foramen

Question 6

Lateral projections from vertebral arch

Answer 6

Transverse processes

Question 7

Single projection from posterior vertebral arch

Answer 7

Spinous process

Question 8

The spinous process is what?

Answer 8

Fused lamina

Question 9

Where muscles attach

Answer 9

Transverse and spinous process

Question 10

What does the superior and inferior projects allow vertebra to do

Answer 10

Form joints with adjacent vertebrae

Question 11

Paired projections lateral to vertebral Foramen

Answer 11

Superior or inferior articular process

Question 12

Cervical vertebrae are what vertebrae

Answer 12

C1-C7

Question 13

What does the cervical vertebrae form

Answer 13

Neck region

Question 14

Which of the cervical vertebrae are different

Answer 14

Atlas and axis which are the first two

Question 15

What is special about the atlas and axis

Answer 15

Perform functions unlike other cervical vertebrae

Question 16

What does the atlas allow you to do

Answer 16

Nod yes

Question 17

Superior surface of transverse processes have large depressions to receive occipital condyles

Answer 17

Atlas

Question 18

Unique characteristics of atlas

Answer 18

No body

Question 19

Acts as pivot for rotation of atlas and skull

Answer 19

Axis

Question 20

The large upright processes are called what and do what

Answer 20

Send and acts as a pivot point

Question 21

What allows you to indicate no

Answer 21

Joint between atlas and axis

Question 22

C3-C7 are called what

Answer 22

Typical vertebrae

Question 23

What is special about the typical vertebrae

Answer 23

Smallest and lightest vertebrae

Question 24

Spinous processes of the typical vertebrae are what

Answer 24

Short and divided into 2 branches

Question 25

The transverse processes of typical vertebrae are what

Answer 25

Contain foramina for vertebral arteries to pass on the way to the brain

Question 26

T1-T12

Answer 26

Thoracic vertebrae

Question 27

In comparison to the cervical the thoracic are ?

Answer 27

Larger

Question 28

What is special about the thoracic vertebrae

Answer 28

Articulate with ribs

Question 29

The body of the thoracic is what?

Answer 29

Heart shaped

Question 30

The two costal facets of the thoracic vertebrae do what

Answer 30

Receive heads of ribs

Question 31

The transverse processes of thoracic vertebrae do what

Answer 31

Articulate with know like tubercles of ribs

Question 32

What does the thoracic vertebraes spinous process look like

Answer 32

Long and hooks downward and looks like giraffes head when looked at from the side

Question 33

L1-L5

Answer 33

Lumbar vertebrae

Question 34

The bodies of the lumbar vertebrae are what

Answer 34

Massive and block like

Question 35

Spinous processes of lumbar vertebrae

Answer 35

Short and hatchet shaped to look like a moose head

Question 36

Most of the stress of vertebral column occurs in what

Answer 36

Lumbar vertebrae

Question 37

How is the sacrum formed

Answer 37

Fusion of fiver vertebrae

Question 38

What does the sacrum articulate with

Answer 38

Superiorly with L5

Inferior my with coccyx

Question 39

The sacrums wing like alae articulate laterally with hip bones to form what joint

Answer 39

Sacroilic joints

Question 40

Forms posterior wall of pelvis

Answer 40

Sacrum

Question 41

End of spinal cord

Answer 41

Sacral hiatus

Question 42

How is coccyx formed

Answer 42

3-5 vertebrae

Question 43

Shape of coccyx

Answer 43

Tiny irregularly shaped

Question 44

What is the coccyx

Answer 44

Tailbone or remnant of a tail that other vertebraes have

Question 45

Disc like weight-bearing part of vertebrae faces anteriorly in vertebral column

Answer 45

Body or centrum