Anatomy Exam 1 Flashcards
What is the correct anatomical position?
Thumbs out
What position must our arms be in to allow our radius and ulna to be independent structures?
Supine hands supinated thumbs out
What does the cephalic vein follow?
Thumbs and radius
What does your basilic vein follow?
Pinky and ulna
What’s one thing muscles do?
Contract
Primary function of our vertebrae?
Protect spinal cord
Now many cervical vertebrae?
7
How many thoracic vertebrae?
12
How many lumbar vertebrae?
5
How many sacral vertebrae?
5 fused
How many coccygeal vertebrae?
3-4 fused
What makes cervical vertebrae unique?
Foramen transversarium
What the purpose of the foremen transversarium?
Protect vertebral artery
What makes of thoracic vertebrae unique?
Rib attachments
All vertebrae contain the same structures, what do they contain?
Vertebral body,
pedicle,
Transverse process,
spinous process
Lamina
How is the nerve able to leave the spinal cord and get to the body?
Intervertebral foramen
What come together to form of vertebral foramen?
Superior and inferior vertebral notches
What allows our spinal cord to have movement?
Zygapopphysial joints
What is inside our intervertebral discs?
Nucleus pulposus and anulur fibrosis
How many demifacets does a rib come into contact with?
3; 2 of its own rib and 1 from the vertebrae above it at inferior demifacet
Name the ligament that provides rigidity and support to our head
Ligamentum nuchae
Where does the levator scapulae attach?
c1-c4
What is the separation point of our rhomboid major and rhomboid minor?
Where the spine of the scapula medially joins the border of the scapula
What muscle is deep to the rhomboids?
Posterior serratus superior