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
Name the 3 muscles that are responsible for head movement and provide tremendous support because they run in different directions
Trapezius
Splenius capitus
Semisplenalis capitus
Muscle directly superior to spine of scapula
Supraspinatus
Muscle directly inferior to spine of scapula
Infraspinatus
An area where we have multiple layers of fascia bound together that’s extremely strong?
Aponeurosis
What 4 muscles make up the rotator cuff?
Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
Teres minor
Subscapularis
What muscle or muscles form the posterior cuff of the rotator cuff?
Infraspinatus
Teres minor
What muscles or muscle make up the anterior cuff of the rotator cuff?
Subscapularis
What muscle or muscles make up the superior cuff of the rotator cuff?
Supraspinatus
What area do most rotator cuff injuries occur and why?
Supraspinatus; forms 80% of cuff
What’s the main function of our axillary nerve?
Supply the deltoid
What artery and nerve pass through the quadrangular space?
Axillary nerve
Posterior circumflex humeral artery
What artery passes through the triangular space?
Circumflex scapular artery
What artery and nerve pass through the triangular interval?
Profunda brachii artery
Radial nerve
Name the heads of the triceps brachii
Long head
Lateral head
Medial head
What’s the relationship between our teres minor, teres major, and long head of tricep brachii?
Posterior view:
Long head of triceps lies superficial to teres major and deep to the teres minor
What artery and nerve lie immediately superficial to the medial head of our triceps brachii?
Profunda brachii artery and radial nerve
Name the borders of the quadrangular space?
Inferior margin of Subscapularis
Surgical neck of humerus
Superior margin of teres major
Lateral margin of long head tricep
Name the borders of the triangular space.
Medial margin of long head tricep
Inferior margin of Subscapularis
Superior margin of teres major
Name the borders of the triangular interval
Inferior margin of teres major
Shaft of humerus
Lateral margin of long head tricep
Name the heads of the biceps brachii
Short head and long head
Where does the long head of the biceps brachii attach?
Shoulder at glenoid fossa
How does the coracobrachialis attach to the humerus
Mid humerus on medial aspect
What are three muscles that attach to the coracoid process
Short head of bicep brachii
Coracobrachialis
Pectoralis minor
How does the brachialis muscle attach to the humerus
Mid humerus on lateral aspect
What muscle lies immediately deep to the short head of our bicep brachii
Coracobrachialis
What nerve punctures through our coracobrachialis and what makes it unique
Musculocutaneous nerve; helps find brachial plexus
What muscle lies immediately deep to the brachioradialis
Supinator
What muscle allows for supination?
Supinator
What muscles allow pronation?
Pronator teres
Pronator quadratus
Muscle that forms a web on palm of hands
Palmaris longus
What nerve lies immediately deep to the palmaris longus
Median nerve
What muscle allows flexion of our thumb
Flexor pollicis longus
What muscle lies deep to our flexor digitorum superficialis
Flexor digitorum profunda
Flow of arteries
Draw flow of arteries
Draw flow of views
Draw flow of veins
What important arteries come off the subclavian artery
Vertebral artery and thyrocervical trunk
Name branches off of the thyrocervical trunk
Suprascapular
Transverse cervical
Inferior thyroid
Ascending cervical
Name the branches that come off the axillary artery
Anterior and posterior circumflex humeral artery
What is the origin of our cephalic vein
Axillary vein
Name the 2 major veins that do not run with an artery
Cephalic and great saphenous vein
What vein connects our basilic and cephalic vein
Median cubital vein
Draw our brachial plexus
Draw out brachial plexus
When does the posterior cord of our brachial plexus become our radial nerve?
After we give off axillary nerve branch
What area does our brachial plexus innervate?
Shoulder to fingers
What 3 nerves from our brachial plexus continue all the way down to our fingers?
Median
Radial
Ulnar
What are the 4 major terminal branches of our brachial plexus
Musculocutaneous
Radial
Median
Ulnar
What area does our Musculocutaneous nerve innervate
Muscles and cutaneous area of arm until mid forearm the stops
What vein lies on the surface of our sternocleidomastoid muscle?
External jugular vein
What structures does our axillary artery lie between?
1st rob and teres major
What does our axillary vein give rise to after it passes the teres major?
Basilic vein
What is our pelvis made up of?
Ilium
Ischium
Pubis
what is the most palpable point of our pelvis
ASIS
Where do our obturator nerves travel through and what do they supply
Obturator foramen
Supplies our adductors
What does our IT band allow us to do?
Stand for long periods of time without exerting any muscles
What muscles attaches to the anterior superior aspect of iliotibial tract
Tensor fasciae latae
What’s the longest muscle in the body?
Sartorius
What’s the least painful site to give IM injections?
Gluteus medius
What muscle lies immediately deep to the IT band
Vastus lateralis
What muscle lies medial to the vastus lateralis
Rectus femoris
What muscle lies on the lateral aspect of the posterior superior portion of the lower extremity
Bicep femoris; long head and short head
What muscle helps with finding our sciatic nerve
Piriformis
What muscle fills the gap left by our soleus muscle?
Popliteus